The Nanny State Stains a Deck - American Thinker

The Nanny State Stains a Deck - American Thinker - By John F. Di Leo

"...there is something going on that we don't usually expect, and while it's been in process for a century now, it's become blatant only for the past decade or so, and that's the growth of a regulatory state that virtually no candidate ever really campaigns on: the incredibly intrusive growth of the picky, micromanaging regulatory state...

• For decades, the federal government has mandated that automotive gasoline include a percentage of corn ethanol
• For about ten years, the federal government has waged war on the incandescent lightbulb, gradually forcing a changeover to compact fluorescents, LEDs, and other new technologies that cost more, don't work with dimmer switches, and are infinitely more likely to be manufactured in China...
• The federal government has long attempted to curtail water use by regulating the design of shower heads, toilets, and bathroom faucets...
• The related issue currently in the news is the world of natural gas appliances...

The damage all this does is incredible, and largely untrackable...