{"id":13487,"date":"2011-08-07T09:45:02","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T16:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=13487"},"modified":"2011-08-07T08:25:51","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T15:25:51","slug":"a-practical-governing-strategy-for-the-republican-party-it-wont-happen-but-at-least-its-potentially-doable-unlike-everything-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/13487\/a-practical-governing-strategy-for-the-republican-party-it-wont-happen-but-at-least-its-potentially-doable-unlike-everything-else\/","title":{"rendered":"A practical governing strategy for the Republican party. It won’t happen, but at least it’s potentially doable, unlike everything else."},"content":{"rendered":"

[Back to the top from November 3, 2010. –GSS]<\/em>
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Here’s what the Republicans won last night, most probably: The opportunity to be left holding the bag if the whole creaking kleptocracy crashes.<\/p>\n

Here’s what they mostly can’t do, at least not right away: Cut spending or taxes. A huge and growing portion of the budgets at all levels of government are entitlement payments — a subsistence dole under various labels. We have taken a once-free people and turned it half-predator, half-prey — often with both halves living under one scalp, amazingly enough.<\/p>\n

So what can Republicans actually do, right now, to deliver on their promises?<\/p>\n

They can eliminate every form of business regulation, at all levels of government.<\/p>\n

Civil court has always been more than adequate to deal with actual injury. Not coincidentally, statutory regulation is always anti-economic nonsense: Banning competitors (as with the real estate licensing laws), government make-work, monkey-see-monkey-do, superstition, ossified tradition, power lust, etc. If no one is getting hurt, what is being regulated out of existence is this: Human intelligence.<\/p>\n

That’s significant for two reasons: We need for business people to get to work and to take a bunch of us along with them. If we decriminalize human intelligence, at least partially, it’s reasonable to expect to see more of it — to everyone’s benefit. But even without the innovations we currently forbid in many businesses and industries, business people need to be able to plan for the future. If they are constantly subject to a vast, unknowable array of ever-changing regulations, they will not take risks. This is news to no one.<\/p>\n

So: I’m not talking about some kind of “temporary moratorium” on regulation. This is an old, old leftist dodge: If the cows start to look scrawny, let them fatten up a little before you take up the slaughter again. Alas, because Republicans often have no firmly-held philosophical principles, they fall for these stunts again and again — as with the Bush tax “cuts.”<\/p>\n

No, what is needed is the complete eradication of regulation: Repeal the enabling legislation, pay off and dismiss the staff, liquidate the chattel- and real-property. (All of this will Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Back to the top from November 3, 2010. –GSS]  Here’s what the Republicans won last night, most probably: The opportunity to be left holding the bag if the whole creaking kleptocracy crashes. Here’s what they mostly can’t do, at least not right away: Cut spending or taxes. 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