Who Are the Bootleggers Here?
Posted in Regulation on Nov 25th, 2011
My bet is that the movie theater lobby is behind this stupidity. Any other ideas out there? HT to Julia R for brightening my day!
Tag Archive 'licensing'
The Bad Samaritans
Posted in Competition, Government Thuggery on Jun 3rd, 2011
Via Coyote, the whole article has to be supplied. Look at the last sentence too: For a few years, Mike Haege’s sister lived in north Minneapolis. He knows the neighborhood at least a little bit, and when a tornado tore through the area on Sunday, May 22, he took notice. On the news he saw […]
Dispatches from the Thugocracy
Posted in Government Gone Wild, If I Really Hated the Poor ... on Nov 8th, 2010
Milk police in Massachusetts: (HT: John Barry) Brigitte Ruthman, owner of Joshua’s Farm on Dodd Road, has one milk-producing cow. Earlier this year, she provided raw — or unpasteurized — milk to three other people through an agreement similar to a food cooperative. That’s not a typo folks. One cow. Three customers. And she sold […]
Peeling Back the Outer Layer of the Onion
Posted in Regulation on Apr 2nd, 2008
It is a well-known fact that union membership and coverage has declined substanially over the 20th century. For exampe, in 1973 nearly a quarter of all wage and salary workers were unioin members (it was far higher in earlier years – for example it seems to have hit 37 percent in 1960, but the data […]