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Those permits should not exist. They are a conspiracy to restrain free trade to protect the profits of other merchants at public expense.

So what’s the difference between areas reverting to the Stone Age at warp speed, and areas where obvious progress is occurring? Two words explain it all: government regulation.

The industries making any progress are the least regulated industries. It’s that simple.

Transportation, which includes airlines, is one of the most heavily-regulated industries in the country. It’s impossible to build better supersonic jets because it’s impossible to for them to comply with the thousands and thousands of government requirements. You can point to regressive social ‘developments’, too, thanks to socially-directed regulations like Title VII and Title IX.

DEI is a manifestation of EEOC regulations and related ways the federal government is using regulatory pressure to achieve social goals.

The appliance industry is so regulated we need a new word, a word like micromanagement. Appliances have become micro-regulated and now they don’t work.

Government regulation also ossifies big corporations into de-facto fascism. Big corporations adjust to swelling regulation and evolve to earn a profit anyway. The regulations keep out competitors, to survive, big corporations capture the regulatory agencies that are supposed to supervise them.

It’s a parasymbiotic relationship, as evidenced by the well-documented turnstile of FDA officials and board members between big pharma and the regulatory health agencies.

You might think the situation is beyond redemption, but it’s not. Not at all. We have an effective example of how easily it could be fixed. That example manifest when President Trump required every agency to remove two regulations for every new regulation imposed. The rule was simple, elegant, and brilliant. It was self-enforcing. And it worked. During Trump’s term in office, the agencies removed more than two regulations for each new one they passed.

On his first day in office, Joe Biden revoked President Trump’s regulation-pruning order.

So the regulatory problem, which is under attack in many ways, is susceptible to a solution. All it requires is the political will to change. I’m not saying you should vote for President Trump. I’m saying you should vote for someone who’ll implement the Trump rule. So, you know.