Regulation

Offering subsidies is how many states show interest in bringing in a new business enterprise and states regularly try to offer more than other states can, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Marc Joffe explains how states can get out of the trap of playing the subsidies game against their neighbors.

This kind of reform restores the proper balance—as provided by the Fourth Amendment—between Americans’ privacy rights and law enforcement’s ability to gather evidence to enforce laws. It would protect individuals’ financial privacy and improve federal agencies’ abilities to prosecute criminal activity rather than sift through millions of low-value reports.

Such an abuse of power is why the U.S. founders set up a limited government, and it is one of the main reasons federal agencies should not have so much discretion.

Rather than micromanage the housing production process, they should be getting out of the way and allowing home builders and home buyers the flexibility needed to alleviate the state’s housing shortage.