government regulations

It seems that some people just can't stand the EPA telling billionaires to stop putting their barrels of toxic waste in trees near children's playgrounds. They just don't care about the squirrel/frogs it creates that shoot off acorns with their laser eyes. And while that incident was solved by...

I thought about putting this in economics but I was thinking this is as much a policy decision as it is economics. However, given the discussion that has been going on in the "What is this magic free utopia?" thread it made me think a little more about what regulations the government should put...

Its own Congress dismantled America by deregulation and trade agreements. Who the hell told them to do that? Oh yeah, follow the money.

Okay, so I'm still trying wrap myself around this: Water doesn't hydrate The bottom line to this (as I see it) is they want to prevent Bottled Water companies from saying that their water can prevent dehydration, because it sounds like there's something "Special" about their bottled water.

We so often hear the lament that government regulations kill jobs. Someone even said that the EPA should be renamed the job killing agency. So what exactly are the regulations that we should get rid of? What is the trade off to the rest of society? What is the EPA doing in particular that makes...

From the CNN story: Wait a second. Fact check anyone? Is there a company of 5 or 6 employees that needs one employee only for dealing with government rules and government regulations? Oh for the days of "The Jungle"!

http://money.cnn.com/2011/07/11/news/economy/light_bulb_ban/index.htm?iid=HP_River Looking at the comments makes it seem as if a fair number people consider this an example of the government unnecessarily taking away their rights. I don't get it. It's not as if the need to save energy in the...

Have we really lost all logic and reason? http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cfl.asp And get this I've heard that's what they want to do here in the US. Are they nuts? Making it a crime to produce incandescent light bulbs while forcibly accepting "environmentally friendly" bulbs filled...

http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/05/a-raw-political-fight-ron-paul-battles-the-fd the federal goverment considers raw milk an illegal substance just like heroin and marijuana. "help please i need the nanny state to make laws to protect me from dangerous animal by products :( " LMAO...

ISFATOTTDFOIAIMMI Calories on menus next to the price? Here is a NY Times article from around when the health care bill passed: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/24/business/24menu.html It comes close to answering the questions in the thread title, but I'm wondering what everyone's opinions...

I am worried, though leery of these claims "anyone caught growing food without permission, even in their own backyard, could be charged with a criminal offense. " http://www.zagasi.com/senate-bill-510-a-major-danger-to-human-health-and-freedom/221082/...

Glenn Beck: Slavery "started with seemingly innocent ideas" then "The government.... began to regulate things" Bat. [Guano]. Insane. http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201010010026 First minute: "Did health care go up, or did it go down" ... well check it in any year prior to now! It went up in...

Twiggy's Olay ad banned over airbrushing

John McCain and the rest of his republican friends have all of a sudden become believers, no, enthusiasts of regulation. Hooray! You might say. But wait, theres a catch (there always is with these republican hypocrites). The regulation McCain and friends are taking about is regulating the flow...

In another thread dealing with the subject of tort reform, I noted: The notion of regulations being a complete defense was changed today, in the case of Riegel vs. Medtronic, Inc. The case dealt with one area where there is heavy government regulation, namely, the field of medical devices (and...

The mention of a businesses right to serve unhealthy food to those who request it in the smoking thread got me thinking: how far should this right extend? For (an extreme) example, let me offer the following: Let's say I hate homeless people, and I want to get rid of them all. I get a whole...