Sean Hannity today was talking about how politicians need to use private jets so they don’t get delayed by all the TSA rules they have imposed on the masses at the airports. It is not difficult to demonstrate how rules, short of the Golden Rule, Ten Commandments, and other basics, limit potential productivity. I have been privileged to see a person in elective office weave around two rows of parked cars to run a red light.
While serving on Asheville City Council, Bryan Freeborn was hushed by his peers for trying to impose requirements on developers that could not be legally upheld. Now, his daughter, Wild, is making national news for violating Girl Scout rules and selling cookies online. Freeborn is challenging the Girl Scouts, saying she wasn’t actually pushing the boxes through computer monitors, but only taking orders. He finds the rules behind-the-times, and a clamp on entrepreneurship.
