Quotes About Regulation

If the tax loop holes that allow tax avoidance were shut down, it would go some way to sorting out our finances, would it not?

For more than a century, states have sought to protect the integrity of the democratic process at the state and local level by regulating corporate spending in elections.

Financial regulation is the next item on the political horizon, and it doesn't have to be the deathly dull wonk-battle that it sounds like. In fact, if the Democrats do their job, it can just as easily become a platform for addressing the greatest issues of them all.

Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

Parents should be allowed to choose which cable or satellite channels - sources of the most extreme content - come into their homes.

The federal government should not be able to hide behind sovereign immunity when the facts don't meet the protections.

A key part of your sovereignty is the ability to control the influx and outflow of your people and is the ability to secure your border.

In a pre-Internet world, sovereignty over our physical freedoms, or lack thereof, was controlled almost entirely by nation-states.

For an American, as mad you may be about whatever the EPA or the IRS does, just imagine if you only had a one twenty-eighth vote over what it does. You were in this place with this big bureaucracy that sets rules, and you only have a small vote. You'd feel like you've given up your sovereignty, wouldn't you?

For too long, the producers of non-dairy beverages, such as almond and soy products, have unfairly benefited from the ability to label their products as milk.

Censorship should never go. But we can always give a little more space to the director.

Agencies and the executive branch need to enforce the law. They don't need to fill in the spaces if Congress doesn't act.

As smoking has disappeared from television screens, planes, bars and restaurants, and other public spaces, the smoking rate has dropped to a third of its peak of 45 percent in the mid-1950s.

Every other animal responds to the call of sex only in "season." Man's inclination is to declare "open season.

Further, in countries where wealth comes from rent-seeking, political patronage, or regulatory capture (which, I remind the reader, is how the powerful and the insiders use regulation to scam the public, or red tape to slow down competition), wealth is seen as zero-sum.*2

Light control works; close control leads to overreaction

Simply, humans should not be given explosive toys (like atomic bombs, financial derivatives, or tools to create life).

A complex system, contrary to what people believe, does not require complicated systems and regulations and intricate policies.

things are starting to be brought under control today;

Beware of precise plans by government. Let government predict: it makes them feel better about themselves and justifies their existence.

fewer pedestrians die jaywalking than using regulated crossings.

The deregulation led to an increase in safety, confirming the antifragility of attention at work

the more complex the regulation, the more bureaucratic the network, the more a regulator who knows the loops and glitches would benefit from it later