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lifting the burden of overregulation
Published: Saturday, February 15th, 2025 @ 8:27 am
By: John Steed
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will target government overregulation and waste of administrative state
Published: Thursday, November 21st, 2024 @ 11:49 am
By: John Steed
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North Carolina’s administrative code is cluttered with over 1,000 rules whose authorizing statutes have been repealed
Published: Saturday, March 25th, 2023 @ 7:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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There are concerns over Big Tech policing itself and putting freedom of speech at risk, but what about overregulation from the government and calls for treating social media companies like utilities?
Published: Saturday, May 7th, 2022 @ 7:05 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Editors at the Washington Examiner decry “the petty tyrants in your shower,” exposing a clear case of federal government overregulation.
Published: Wednesday, August 19th, 2020 @ 1:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republicans made many changes when they came into the majority of the General Assembly, but one of their most important is one of the least known.
Published: Tuesday, June 18th, 2019 @ 6:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Scene: Downtown Raleigh, 2018. There's a new feature on the roads and - though they're not supposed to - sidewalks. Young men and women in professional attire zipping by at lunchtime in electric-powered scooters.
Published: Friday, April 5th, 2019 @ 8:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week's newsletter mentioned in passing something that this week's entry will explore further. It discussed my new report promoting a state REINS Act for North Carolina, in light of findings by Beacon Hill economists that the regulatory burden imposed by North Carolina on the private sector...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 3:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Apart from its compliance costs (which can be massive) and opportunity costs (which can be unfathomable), another cost of overregulation can be difficult in a different way to quantify: overcriminalization.
Published: Saturday, October 24th, 2015 @ 3:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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"'It was a nightmare': Man warns NC homeowners about little-known land rule," blared a headline from WRAL this week. Here is a snippet from the story...
Published: Saturday, July 18th, 2015 @ 3:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In "NeverEnding Story," a 1984 film loosely based on a fantasy novel by the German author Michael Ende, a boy reads about a land called Fantasia that is being erased by...
Published: Monday, December 8th, 2014 @ 2:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"The NeverEnding Story" is a 1984 film loosely based on a fantasy novel by the German author Michael Ende. The story centers on the story a boy, Bastian, is reading about a land called Fantasia that is being erased by ... nothing.
Published: Saturday, November 22nd, 2014 @ 10:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Building on positive reforms from the past few years, North Carolina's elected leaders can take more steps to help boost economic growth, improve education, and fight overregulation. The John Locke Foundation's new Agenda 2014 Policy Report offers more than 110 recommendations addressing these...
Published: Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014 @ 6:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Regulation imposes significant costs on the economy through deadweight loss - i.e., labor and capital employed in complying with government edicts and red tape, as opposed to being used for productive purposes.
Published: Sunday, June 23rd, 2013 @ 9:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Legislators can take one of the most effective steps toward fighting overregulation in North Carolina by setting expiration dates for state rules. Support for end dates -- or sunsetting -- is one of the key findings in a new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report.
Published: Wednesday, June 12th, 2013 @ 11:57 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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