Former White House Budget Director Peter Orszag has said: “The country’s political polarization was growing worse — harming Washington’s ability to do the basic, necessary work of governing.” He wishes out loud that enlightened bureaucrats would not be overly constrained by lesser souls who hinder their work, presumably because they are too dense to comprehend the good that bureaucrats are [...]
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OSHA Shakedown
shakedown of St. Louis business: OSHA inspector shows up, shuts down work site, makes up ridiculous violations, demands $3,600 in fines. I suppose they assume that the threat of litigation will get them some percentage of that. The mob couldn’t come up with a better scam.
How “Serve And Protect” Becomes “Harass And Collect”
What happens when you have to go through a bureaucracy any time you want to accomplish anything? In Russia, all activity is so heavily regulated that the only way to get anything done is to bribe someone. A Levada Center poll of 1,600 Russians said they believed that “bribes are given by everyone who comes [...]
