Meanwhile, in other news…
By Daniel Hannan:
Many alternative and herbal medicines disappeared from the shelves today. New EU rules have proscribed some remedies outright and subjected others to a prohibitively expensive testing regime. The BBC, in its tagline, unquestioningly described the Directive as “protecting consumers”. In fact, the ban has nothing to do with public health, and everything to do with corporate interests.
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Oliver Letwin, a British Conservative politician, had this to say about the growth of the nanny state:
“It is not about taxing less, and running the economy efficiently-vital though those goals are. It’s about seeing the catastrophic fiscal impact of having a bossy, regulatory approach whereby new laws and new interdictions endlessly necessitate the creation of new taxpayer-funded officials to enforce those laws. It is therefore about treating people as grown-ups, and letting them take their own risks, without endlessly and expensively substituting the judgment and protection of the state.”
Comment by dave | May 1, 2011