In Global Trade, We Need Equal Protection from All Governments
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‘Leave All of Us Alone’ Is a Pretty Good Summary Yesterday we wrote of, here at home, the long lost beauty of equal protection before the law. Which the Fourteenth Amendment of our Constitution mandates - but our government almost never delivers. By forsaking this important tenet, we opened wide the door to cronyism - with government playing favorites amongst private sector players. Decades later, we have a heinous patchwork quilt of laws and regulations - oft even contradictory rules that have been time and again warped to the will of the highest bidders. The result - is anything but a free market economy. Want to know why our nation has basically stagnated for decades? A crucial component of the sclerosis - is our government’s steadfast refusal to treat everyone equally. But as brilliant as our Constitution is - it is not the original font of this particular piece of wisdom. The idea that government should treat everyone equally - goes back a bit further. At least to ancient Greece -
In Global Trade, We Need Equal Protection from All Governments
In Global Trade, We Need Equal Protection…
In Global Trade, We Need Equal Protection from All Governments
‘Leave All of Us Alone’ Is a Pretty Good Summary Yesterday we wrote of, here at home, the long lost beauty of equal protection before the law. Which the Fourteenth Amendment of our Constitution mandates - but our government almost never delivers. By forsaking this important tenet, we opened wide the door to cronyism - with government playing favorites amongst private sector players. Decades later, we have a heinous patchwork quilt of laws and regulations - oft even contradictory rules that have been time and again warped to the will of the highest bidders. The result - is anything but a free market economy. Want to know why our nation has basically stagnated for decades? A crucial component of the sclerosis - is our government’s steadfast refusal to treat everyone equally. But as brilliant as our Constitution is - it is not the original font of this particular piece of wisdom. The idea that government should treat everyone equally - goes back a bit further. At least to ancient Greece -