How Politicians Use Regulations to Deflect Blame

03/31/2023 Patrick Carroll

Thanks to their adoring media, politicians create crises and then blame businesses for them. And the political “solutions” are worse than the original problems.

Original Article: “How Politicians Use Regulations to Deflect Blame”

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