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To: Dale Baker who wrote (423)	6/5/2005 5:43:17 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541373

Regulation - I would want to know which regulatory functions someone wants limited and not just "we oppose too much regulation". How much is too much? (Hint - you aren't allowed to answer with just one anecdote from an extreme case). What do you want a book? How about for starters we have a default assumption that anyone should be able to buy and sell anything to anyone else at any price. That assumption is not set in stone, but the people wanting to regulate have the burden of proof that things would be much better with the regulation than without, and if they can't show that than we leave things unregulated. You want something specific? How about not having to face FEC regulations if I want to support a political idea or candidate? Taxation - didn't mention that, though it's a valid issue. Having never conducted complex interstate commerce myself, I can't say I know the issue well. Which points of taxation do you object to? Mainly that I want taxes to be lower and simpler. Tax laws should be simple to comply with and shouldn't take as much of our money. Trade barriers - didn't come up in my example. Your example was an example of the larger issue, not the issue itself. Also trade barriers do effect commerce in fruit. Restrictive licensing - hadn't thought about that one. Is it a common problem? Where? States trying to limit casket sales to people who have a morticians liscence and the mortians give a huge markup. States trying to insist on cosmetology liscences for people to braid hair. Localities giving out too few cab lisences to keep the cabbies happy but creating a lower degree of service, while also restricting entry in limo service, and cracking down on people who set up their own van/jitney services to serve poorer neighborhoods. Those are just off the top of my head, I could think of more. As for the government controls on prices they are mostly in agriculture. I can't think of any others right now, but I know that they used to exist in the past. Tim