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Posted in Government Gone Wild, Paternalism on Jul 14th, 2011
And then they came for … YOUR children. HT to the indomitable Radley Balko. Here is the last episode in the series.
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Posted in Paternalism on Jun 22nd, 2011
And then they came for the … dog paddlers: People who hope to beat the summer heat by swimming, floating or boating on rivers in King County must wear a life vest or face an $86 fine. … Swimmers or people wading more than 5 feet from shore or in water more than 4 feet […]
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Posted in Government Gone Wild on Apr 19th, 2011
And then they came for the … wiffle bats? Seriously. I guess the wiffle lobby finally shook some sense into the thugulators. Here is the last episode in the series.
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Posted in Government Gone Wild, Paternalism on Mar 15th, 2011
And then they came for the … incense and perfume! You cannot make this up” Yesterday I pointed to Portland’s pending ban on perfumes and colognes in city buildings, and noted that this is how bans on smoking in all public places began. Your turn, Nevada: Critics say a Nevada bill banning air fresheners and candles […]
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Posted in Paternalism on Jan 31st, 2011
… the bath salts. I read this as I was trying to take two wimpy Sudafeds. Here is the last entry in the series. If Chuck gets his way, we’ll ban the salts, and then the burnouts will turn to some other household item to snort … and then after that one gets banned, they’ll […]
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Posted in Paternalism on Nov 9th, 2010
And then they came for the Happy Meal toys. The ordinance, which would go into effect in December of next year, prohibits toy giveaways in fast-food children’s meals that have more than 640 milligrams of sodium, 600 calories or 35 percent of their calories from fat. The law also would limit saturated fats and trans […]
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Posted in Paternalism on Mar 12th, 2010
Salt to possibly be banned in restaurant cooking in NYC. Really. Here is the first in my series. My friend Art Carden writes: Quoth a Facebook friend, in linking this piece about a proposed ban on salt in New York restaurants: “Just when I thought people protesting the trans fat ban using a slippery slope […]
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Posted in Paternalism, Uncategorized on Sep 28th, 2009
When I first saw this headline, I thought that the EU government was trying to do something about externalities. It turns out I was dead wrong. The EU hopes to set limits on the volume of MP3 players not because the loud volume played by some is a distraction (pollution in fact) to innocent bystanders. […]
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Posted in Corporatism on Mar 25th, 2009
The post office, a monopoly, is begging us for help now. Among the goodies it wants is to stop having to put money away to pay for promised retiree medical care. Guess who will be forced to pay for that when the program is underfunded? Here are some previous posts in this series.
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Posted in Corporatism on Mar 19th, 2009
I guess we now know why GM does not need additional bailout funds this month, they are getting it through their suppliers. So not the automakers are getting help on FIVE fronts: Direct government bailout money Cheap access to credit via their finance companies such as GMAC Bailout funds for their parts suppliers Government guarantees […]