Regulation

THE “MUSICAL CHAIRS” OF INFLATION

If you were taking an economics class and had a test question asking, “What happens when a business’s cost of goods goes up?” The correct answer on a test written by a professor would be that the cost gets passed to the customer. In theory, that is correct, but any small business owner will tell a very different story.    Inflation comes in waves, with a lag effect. Every node in a supply chain hesitates to …

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REGULATED ECONOMIES

“Any law that makes it legal for the government to do what would be a crime for an individual to do should be stricken from the books”. “The real cost of the State is the prosperity we do not see, the jobs that don’t exist, the technologies to which we do not have access, the businesses that do not come into existence, the the bright future that is stolen from us. The State has looted …

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THE POACHERS OF FREEDOM

The debt we owe for being born into a prosperous and free country is to preserve that environment for those yet to come. Freedom must always be protected and preserved, just as any natural resource requires preservation and protection. One generation that selfishly consumes more of a resource than can be replenished denies future generations of that resource. At times, entire generations may prohibit using a resource to allow that resource to replenish so future …

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SUNSETS ON ALL LEGISLATION

Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.                               -Mark Twain Every time Congress is in session, they create more laws. The very nature of this means every year, we have more regulations. Each additional law establishes a need for more administration and enforcement.  Every year, the government grows, as does the …

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URBAN / RURAL REPRESENTATION

This nation was founded as a Constitutional republic with democratic elections. It is not a pure democracy because pure democracy is tribalistic. The American Constitution was designed to produce a country that is not tribalistic. The founders set out to create a legal system whereby all citizens have equal representation under the law. No other government had established such a system, making America the “exception to the rule,” hence the term “American Exceptionalism.” In a …

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