Tuesday, August 03, 2010

What I've been reading

  • Speaking of lobbyists, the National Beer Wholesalers Association is busy supporting legislation which would restrict competition in the beer industry. Using the government to suit your own ends is what lobbying is all about. 
  • A new Congressional Research Report concludes that it is impossible to assess just how many new bureaucracies ObamaCare will create. 

4 comments:

Ben said...

Do you oppose the ADA?

Colin said...

Yes. While there are perhaps part of it worth supporting -- I believe, for example, that it mandated government buildings have to have wheelchair ramps, which I can understand given that tax dollars from the disabled help fund those buildings -- overall it was a net negative.

Here's just one example:

http://ideas.repec.org/p/nbr/nberwo/6670.html

Ben said...
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Colin said...

Well, the fact that employment has declined among the disabled seems to loom pretty large, especially given that it seems one of the legislation's goals was to better integrate them in the working world.