It’s a concept that’s been pushed to the back-burner recently, but still very germane — the fact that all of the “legislating morality” in Washington inhibits business growth. George Will notes:
“People will figure out a way to make a buck if they know what the rules are… over the past 12 years, the number of provisions of the tax code expiring annually has increased tenfold, the number of federal regulators has grown 25 percent in five years, and Obamacare and Dodd-Frank expand uncertainty by enlarging the government’s discretion”