MicroGroks
I experienced this personally on the last day of my last term as a Budget Committee member in my town so this ISN’T just a problem at the county, State, or National levels.
Bootleggers and Baptists (B&B) is useful as a concept for explaining how political coalitions lower the cost of lobbying and raise lobbying effectiveness. It often happens different pressure groups, apparently having little in common, may join forces. Together they pursue targets they share. Each acts for its own reasons.
The spoiler about regulation: “Either the required training period for police officers is low, or that of many other licensed occupations is far too high. Or both.” Reformatted, emphasis mine:
Oy vey is mir! It was crapitalistic back during the Great Recession and it will be just as bad if President Trump does something similar. The result last time with the first Cash for Clunkers?
The market has never tried to change human nature, and guardians of the market have never considered using the market to change human nature. Instead, precisely because human nature cannot be changed, the market economy exists, which is also the reason the market economy is necessary: It causes human actions to better conform to the …
And the more things government touches, the more people will have interests in touching, and wheedling, government. Progressives purport to be scandalized by modern Washington, which is indeed an unlovely maelstrom of interest groups maneuvering to maximize their rent-seeking. This is, however, the Washington that progressives should have known they were making. But they only …
“The people who pay taxes here.” Or better, Tales from the Selectmen, as last night was a Public Hearing about Chapter 27, “An ordinance regulating outdoor vendors and transient sales,” which covers licensing/permitting fees for food trucks working in Gilford. I originally wrote:
Previous posts on the tale of the WinniWagon here and here – the saga(s) of why my hamlet’s “transient food vendor” licenses are, to plaigerize Jimmy McMillan, are “too damn high”. Well, it seems that in looking into the costs of a food truck made more than a few people rather uncomfortable – there’s been …
Justice is an important concept. In all societies it is good from time to time to make an assessment of the justice system. To do that a determination of what has worked and what has not with respect to justice is required. A consensus must be reached on two points before beginning an assessment: The …
“Actually, the town has MADE it their issue.“ Tonite was the organizational meeting for the Budget Committee – and the last year of my last term per my promise to TMEW (The Most Esteemed Wife). Pretty much a time to quickly review the minutes of the last meeting, vote for Chair and Vice-Chair, and sign …
