Michael Lissack greenhouse effect” from these gases is causing dangerous global warning. Bad: Environmental extremism that would ban cars entirely, using spurious “global warming” and “green-house effect’ propaganda long after even more responsible scientists have demonstrated that global warming is a myth, and we are more likely to be heading slowly towards another ice age, if anything. Good: Laws that prevent crime while safeguarding the rights of the accused. Bad: Laws that encourage crime by safeguarding the income of a legal industry dedicated to “due process” overkill and endless expensive appeals. Use of the racketeering laws specifically designed to get the Mafia, to chase everyone from politicians to abortion protesters. The renegade “drug warriors” and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms maniacs who break into innocent people’s houses and kill them, based on entrapment or bad tips from unreliable in- formants. The “zero tolerance” laws that allow the government to confiscate your one-airplane business without a hearing if one of your passengers has drugs in his suitcase. Good: Financial reporting laws that help us collect fair taxes from for- eign corporations, so they don’t gain a special advantage over U.S. corpo- rations in our own country. Bad: Such poorly designed, catchall reporting forms that the IRS estimates that a firm doing a minuscule business overseas will have to waste eighty hours filling out IRS forms on the matter. This is more time than the firm spent conducting the business. The lesson? Don’t try to compete overseas. Regulations shape the daily framework of many of our activities. Their nature describes our methods of governing and our goals. When the mixture of regulations between good and bad is as convoluted as ours the lesson is that we have no goal, no purpose - and are lost in a confusing web of process. Two more examples. Metropolitan Dade County, Florida is open about its redistributive policies. The election of a new county commission on district lines where there had been at large members before changed the makeup of power in the county. The new county commissioners made it clear that they wanted to see a redistribution of the spoils. But at what price. The county has specific minority set aside rules which purport to ensure
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