Suzanimal
07-16-2016, 11:07 AM
There are people who for some deep psychological reason just want to get into other people’s business. (I am joking but I am also increasingly convinced that this is true.) They need to stick their nose into things. They honestly think that they know better. These people are attracted to government like luna moths to high school football flood lamps. They can’t help it. It is in their nature. They must tell people what to do. It satisfies a deep deficit somewhere in the bureaucratic brain.
Mix this with the natural tendency for agencies to ever expand and pretty soon you have a society which is strangled by red tape, bludgeoned by petty rules, and hobbled by million busybodies looking for something, anything to regulate. This is America today.
(From The Washington Free Beacon)
The Department of Energy now has a specific regulation for wine refrigerators.
The agency released a final rule Friday requiring manufacturers to test the energy efficiency of refrigerators used for wine. It estimated the rule would cost the average small business $12,500 to test whether their equipment meets specifications…
…The agency said the $12,500 testing cost is “unlikely to represent a significant economic impact for small businesses.”
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http://www.againstcronycapitalism.org/2016/07/feds-regulating-wine-refrigerators-and-nearly-everything-else-on-gods-green-earth/
Mix this with the natural tendency for agencies to ever expand and pretty soon you have a society which is strangled by red tape, bludgeoned by petty rules, and hobbled by million busybodies looking for something, anything to regulate. This is America today.
(From The Washington Free Beacon)
The Department of Energy now has a specific regulation for wine refrigerators.
The agency released a final rule Friday requiring manufacturers to test the energy efficiency of refrigerators used for wine. It estimated the rule would cost the average small business $12,500 to test whether their equipment meets specifications…
…The agency said the $12,500 testing cost is “unlikely to represent a significant economic impact for small businesses.”
...
http://www.againstcronycapitalism.org/2016/07/feds-regulating-wine-refrigerators-and-nearly-everything-else-on-gods-green-earth/