On Business And Labor
Buckethead: two points I query:
1) You seem to suggest that the current administration is not especially pro-business. Am I reading too much into your comments, or are you on crack?
2) I am well aware that you are by and large a reasonable person, your views on the perfidousness of certain labor laws being a shining example. But if that is the case sir, how do you justify your enthusiasm for the film "Van Wilder"? I mean, it's pretty good, but a shrine to Ryan Reynolds? Come now...
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The current administration is
The current administration is pro-business in a particularist way. The steel tariffs were very pro steel business. Of course, now everything we (including the rest of the businesses) buy that has steel in it will cost more. I could give other examples, but this induces nausea. Adam Smith said that anytime business leaders get together, it is to conspire against the common good. The means they use usually involve getting the government to regulate to their benefit.
I want the administration to be pro-business in a general way - free trade, low regulatory burdens; you know, the movement conservative/economic libertarian/Hayek/Freidman thing. Almost any legislation that "protects" or "defends" some particular segment of business is almost certainly going to screw you, or at least limit your choices.
My shrine is not to Ryan Reynolds. It is to Van Wilder, who while incarnated by the human actor Reynolds, represents a larger and greater truth.