All Posts Tagged With: "National Highway Traffic Safety Administration"
The Scapegoat Utility Vehicle
Sam Kazman is general counsel of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (www.cei.org), a Washington-based free-market advocacy organization. First sin, then treason, and finally, reckless idiocy. For owners of sports utility vehicles (SUVs), that pretty much sums up the last holiday season. They went into Thanksgiving under fire from the “What Would Jesus Drive?” campaign. Then the [...]
1Jul2003 | Sam Kazman | 0 comments | ContinuedDeath by Government Protection
Purely for the sake of discussion, let’s assume the worst about Firestone and Ford: that gross negligence led to the production of tires that killed and injured people riding in Ford Explorers. What does this add to the debate between capitalism and the regulatory state? Crusaders for government regulation think it adds a great deal. [...]
1Dec2000 | Sheldon Richman | 2 comments | Continued-
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