Archives: December 2024
10 years ago
July 2014
“By protecting entrenched interests from competition, occupational licensing makes millions of people worse off, hinders income mobility, and lowers economic growth. It is high time to let Americans work. Abolish all occupational licensing laws and end the practice of entrenched businesses using government to impose higher costs on consumers while thwarting upstart entrepreneurs.”
Veronique de Rugy
“Free the Horse Masseuses!”
27 years ago
November 1997
“Is the Immigration and Naturalization Service toast? The congressionally appointed Commission on Immigration Reform, which has backed cuts in legal immigration, says abolish the INS. The commission wants the State Department to handle citizenship requests, the Justice Department to patrol the borders, and the Labor Department to police worksites. Senate immigration subcommittee Chairman Spencer Abraham (R–Mich.) may propose similar changes.”
Rick Henderson
“Balance Sheet”
28 years ago
March 1996
“There are some who believe that the better way to create thousands of real jobs would be to abolish the Department of Energy, an agency that evades public responsibility by floating below the voter’s radar screen. Its fairy tale existence began in the ‘energy crisis’ of 1973-74, when a temporary Federal Energy Administration was created to deal with the notorious oil shortage. Those gas lines actually began in Spring 1973—prior to the Arab oil embargo—and were the direct product of the wage-and-price-control scheme (a Nixonian fiasco curiously escaping Oliver Stone’s cinematic genius). This made the FEA the perfect governmental solution: Hire federal bureaucrats to fill i
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