Comments on: Regulation and Choice http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/01/regulation_and_.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Matt http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/01/regulation_and_.html/comment-page-1#comment-2303 Matt Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:08:09 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2006/01/regulation_and_.html#comment-2303 <p>My great-grandfather made a pretty fair sum of money in the '20s hauling booze across the border from Canada. I made...well, rather less, but still more than you'd think, hauling toilets across the very same border in the '90s. (If installing a toilet were as easy as drinking, I'd be filthy rich right now. Unfortunately, most people hire a plumber to install their toilet for them, and few plumbers are willing to risk prison just to make sure other people's turds go down the drain in one flush.)</p> My great-grandfather made a pretty fair sum of money in the ’20s hauling booze across the border from Canada. I made…well, rather less, but still more than you’d think, hauling toilets across the very same border in the ’90s. (If installing a toilet were as easy as drinking, I’d be filthy rich right now. Unfortunately, most people hire a plumber to install their toilet for them, and few plumbers are willing to risk prison just to make sure other people’s turds go down the drain in one flush.)

]]> By: Max Schwing http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/01/regulation_and_.html/comment-page-1#comment-2302 Max Schwing Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:50:34 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2006/01/regulation_and_.html#comment-2302 <p>Well, isn't that what Bush preached after Katrina? We must starve our consumption? Market-prices would have done that in an instant, so where is the problem with the voluntary solution?<br /> Ahh, yes, the crisis might be shorter....</p> Well, isn’t that what Bush preached after Katrina? We must starve our consumption? Market-prices would have done that in an instant, so where is the problem with the voluntary solution?
Ahh, yes, the crisis might be shorter….

]]> By: Lenny http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/01/regulation_and_.html/comment-page-1#comment-2301 Lenny Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:26:14 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2006/01/regulation_and_.html#comment-2301 <p>So the proper way to deal with the problem (in the areas where it actually is a problem) would be to allow the cost of water to rise to its un-tampered-with market price, leading consumers to willingly find ways to stop flushing so much of it down the toilet.</p> <p>What a concept! We should tell people about this - surely they'll understand!</p> So the proper way to deal with the problem (in the areas where it actually is a problem) would be to allow the cost of water to rise to its un-tampered-with market price, leading consumers to willingly find ways to stop flushing so much of it down the toilet.

What a concept! We should tell people about this – surely they’ll understand!

]]> By: Max Schwing http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/01/regulation_and_.html/comment-page-1#comment-2300 Max Schwing Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:05:49 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2006/01/regulation_and_.html#comment-2300 <p>Ha, I don't find this soo astounishing, since I live in a country that even claims to know what is cover material and what not. Well, the EU is really bizarre when it comes to regulations. They even define what exactly is an average man (up to an centimeter) and what is a proper working place (down to the foot height Oo).<br /> I think this is the nature of state and it was only a matter of time and information process power until the state started with this ;)</p> Ha, I don’t find this soo astounishing, since I live in a country that even claims to know what is cover material and what not. Well, the EU is really bizarre when it comes to regulations. They even define what exactly is an average man (up to an centimeter) and what is a proper working place (down to the foot height Oo).
I think this is the nature of state and it was only a matter of time and information process power until the state started with this ;)

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