You First Need Government’s Permission to Repair Your Flood Ravaged Home
Whether It's Water or Regulations - It Ain't Great |
Here’s hoping the poor flood victims of Louisiana - aren’t subjected to the governmental inanity being inflicted upon the poor flood victims of South Bend, Indiana:
You need to get your government flood insurance involved - and off the schneid to pay you (as a holder of a government flood policy let me tell you - that ain’t great). You need to secure a contractor to assess the damage and pitch a bid - inordinately difficult in situations such as floods because there aren’t nearly enough contractors to go around.
And the South Bend, Indiana government’s chief concern? That you come up with the money (of which most flood victims are at the moment woefully short) to pay government its permit fees - so that government will grant you permission to rebuild your home.
Is this an outlier? A governmental anomaly? Of course not.
Looking at Louisiana’s flooding today - reminds of the Katrina flooding in 2005. As then-President George W. Bush started the federal government repair effort - what did he do? He suspended the government-impediment-to-progress Davis-Bacon Act:
We have all of this (and more) in mind when we say government lording over the entirety of the Internet (via Net Neutrality) - is a bad idea. You think the Davis-Bacon Act is old? To execute the Web grab, government went all the way back to 1887 railroad law. (How’s that for relevant to a 21st-Century World Wide Web?)
Before the government did this, we warned that it would result in less private sector investment. And it did:
“This capital flight is remarkable considering there have been only two occasions in the history of the broadband industry when capex declined relative to the prior year: In 2001, after the dot.com meltdown, and in 2009, after the Great Recession.”
“This capital flight is remarkable considering there have been only two occasions in the history of the broadband industry when capex declined relative to the prior year: In 2001, after the dot.com meltdown, and in 2009, after the Great Recession.”
We also warned that these new regulations would impose a Mother-May-I, preemptive-government-permission-required impediment to innovation - much like what South Bend, Indiana is foisting upon its waterlogged residents.
And it has. Back on June 6 we wrote:
Well, it’s now nearly three months even further down the road. During said interval, millions of businesses have made hundreds of millions of decisions in the daily execution of their duties. Because that’s what businesses have to do. But is the government any closer to a decision on “zero rating?” Of course not.
Now nineteen months later, is the government any closer to even broad-stroke definitions of what would constitute Net Neutrality violations? Of course not.
But businesses have to make decisions. And please customers. So despite the government’s Sword, we get:
T-Mobile vs. Sprint: The Battle for Unlimited Data: “The carriers unveiled new unlimited data plans that are significantly less expensive than previous offers. But which one is really the better deal?”
We may never get to find out which is the better deal. Because:
T-Mobile Blows the Doors Open Again…And the Net Neutrality Debate Is Not Over
T-Mobile’s One Plan Might Illegal, and the FCC Investigates
That’s no way to run a railroad. Or deal with flood victims. Or regulate businesses.
When we talk about government-induced uncertainty - this is what we mean.
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Seton Motley is the President of Less Government and he contributes to ARRA News Service. Please feel free to follow him him on Twitter / Facebook.
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