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REDUCE REGULATION OF FREIGHT. Railroads should be set free to charge any freight rates they wish, subject only to minimum supervision to guard against blatant discrimination. The present structure of rate regulation is a hangover from the 19th century, when railroads were big, rich monopolists. Today, intense competition from trucks...
CHILDREN'S FURNITURE. More than 200 crib strangulations are reported each year, and near misses are common. An infant can slip his body but not his head between the slats of most cribs. No laws regulate the design of cribs or other infant furniture, and the industry has no...
Alas, this may also be seen as a warrant for repression. It depends on the nature of the state. One wonders how far Walzer is proposing to dismantle the state and deny it the power to inhibit group formation. It would be unwise to hope that the struggle of right...
As a way out, some financiers propose federal credit controls. Since there is not enough credit to go around, they argue, the Government should make sure that what is available goes to borrowers who really need it?home builders, say, or small businessmen?rather than to those with the greatest...
Other government agencies (need anyone mention the Pentagon?) are similarly tied to the industries that they are supposed to regulate. The Labor Department dismissed Jock Yablonski's allegations of gangland corruption on the United Mine Workers until Yablonski and his family were found murdered.