The Supreme Court upheld the health care bill, as you’ve no doubt heard by now. Over at the Daily Caller, I add a few quick thoughts about how Randy Barnett’s Commerce Clause argument also applies to Congress’ taxation power, on the Court’s reluctance to check the other branches’ excesses, and how happy rent-seeking insurance companies must be right now.
Ryan Young
Senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. All opinions here are my own, and not necessarily CEI’s.
Questions? Comments? Send me an email.
Follow me on Twitter – @RegoftheDay
Twitter Feed
- RT @GarettJones: Germany deregulates, vaccinations almost triple. As they say on the internet: đŸ¤” 18 hours ago
- RT @EricBoehm87: End Qualified Immunity 19 hours ago
- For the week, that's 29 proposed regulations, 52 final regulations, 309 agency notices, and 1,205 Federal Register pages. 1 day ago
- 11 proposed regulations, 17 final regulations, 80 agency notices in today's 309-page Federal Register. 1 day ago
- You have actively worked to undermine election integrity, and the consequences were violent. You should resign. twitter.com/HawleyMO/statu… 1 day ago
Archives
Categories
- #NeverNeeded (48)
- Books (511)
- CEI Podcast (197)
- Correspondence (34)
- Economics (1,154)
- Antitrust (95)
- Bailouts (21)
- Business Cycles (31)
- Competition (29)
- Development Economics (13)
- Minimum Wage (35)
- Monetary Theory (24)
- Price and Wage Controls (22)
- Price Gouging (2)
- Public Choice (124)
- Spending (113)
- Stimulus (48)
- Taxation (70)
- The Market Process (38)
- Trade (249)
- education (19)
- Everybody Panic (14)
- Executive Power (12)
- Export-Import Bank (50)
- Financial Regulation (4)
- Free Speech (37)
- Fun with Statistics (10)
- General Foolishness (153)
- Great Thinkers (110)
- Health Care (43)
- History (179)
- Housekeeping (40)
- Immigration (51)
- Inequality (14)
- Innovation (43)
- institutions (2)
- International (143)
- labor (9)
- Law (71)
- Literature (57)
- Media (41)
- Media Appearances (151)
- modernity (6)
- Nanny State (118)
- nationalism (5)
- Philosophy (166)
- Argumentation (24)
- Certainty (19)
- Pith (48)
- Political Animals (349)
- Predicting the Future (9)
- prohibition (9)
- Psychology (2)
- Publications (159)
- Reform (23)
- regulation (792)
- Regulation of the Day (235)
- Science (92)
- Security Theater (93)
- Sports (149)
- Technology (82)
- The Arts (25)
- Music (14)
- The New Religion (108)
- Mankind's Doom (24)
- The Old Religion (14)
- The Partisan Mind (64)
- Transparency (2)
- Uncategorized (559)
Blogroll
Al's Ramblings (Brewers Blog)
Radley Balko (The Agitator)
Caleb Brown
Cafe Hayek
Cato Institute Blog
Coordination Problem (Peter Boettke, Pete Leeson, Steve Horwitz, et al)
William Easterly
EconLog (Bryan Caplan, David Henderson, Arnold Kling)
Jacob Grier
Gene Healy
Steven Landsburg
Jeremy Lott
Megan McArdle
Chris Moody
Carl Oberg
Open Market (CEI)
Tom Palmer
Reason Hit & Run
Jason Vines