As state and federal governments order businesses closed and simultaneously ease regulations to combat the COVID-19 virus, the food and grocery industry is asking the federal government to ease business restrictions to help get more products into stores, according to an email from the CT Food Association. The twelve requests ...
People suggest, in not quite so many words, that if we don’t have this tax or that spending program or yet another regulation, we’ll somehow slip below the Mason-Dixon Line. Fortunately, nothing is so tenuous about our situation. This strict view – good states don’t allow bad behavior – leads us to pile on rules without any perspective on the real-life effects of those rules. Until we stop wearing policies as a badge of honor, it will be hard to honestly assess their impact on people.