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• ‘The Death of Representative Gov’t…’

  Posted July 29th, 2009 at 2:57pm in First Principles with 7 comments

  From NRO’s “The Corner“: Thousand-page bills, unread and indeed unwritten at the time of passage, are the death of representative government. They also provide a clue as to why, in a country this large, national government should be minimal and constrained. Even if you doubled or trebled the size of the legislature, the Conyers conundrum would [...] More

• Video: Rep. Conyers (D-MI) Admits Health Care Bill is Indecipherable

  Posted July 27th, 2009 at 3:54pm in Health Care with 22 comments

  Although we’d like to see all lawmakers read all the bills they sign, we understand Rep. Conyers’s (D-MI) exasperation when he says the 1,018-page House health care bill is indecipherable without a a pair of lawyers to translate it. So maybe each lawmaker should get a whole team of lawyers to help read it? For taxpayers’ sake, [...] More

• No Credit to Congress: House Judiciary Committee Votes on Price Controls

  Posted July 15th, 2008 at 4:03pm in Enterprise and Free Markets with 6 comments

  In 1979, Robert Schuettinger and Eamonn Butler wrote a book called “Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls,” detailing 4,000 years of disastrous attempts by government to control market prices. Tomorrow, the House Judiciary Committee will vote on adding a 41st century to that litany of failure. The target: credit card “interchange fees.” Interchange fees are [...] More