Mises Economics Blog: The Sorrry State of Our Union
George ReismanCongressmen no longer read the bills they vote on and thus do not require them to make sense. (The latest example is the passage of a bill by the House of Representatives making “price gouging” illegal while leaving it undefined.) They leave it to the President and the Supreme Court to sort things out.
And the hardest question that was left unasked in the article: How do we get from where we are, to where we need to go. How do we make our Congress(wo)men want to get back to small government?