Thursday, January 29, 2009

Popehat examines (in pretty great detail) what you can't let the government run anything...

All Baby, No Bathwater:
Short version: This is a law that may wreck thousands of small businesses over a scare in which no one was hurt. Long version, and how I determine that no one was hurt, follows...

Read the whole thing. Just another object lesson in how we cannot allow the pencilnecks and legislators to become the full-service providers of "everything".......

Update 1/29: Wired Magazine -
Small artisan toymakers and those who support their work are worried about their ability to stay in business after Feb. 10, when the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act takes effect. It requires that every toy intended for children under the age of 12 be tested for lead and phthalates.

How's that for economic stimulus?

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