Name a regulation with a worse cost-benefit ratio than cookie consent pop-ups. How does this make anyone better off?

if only there were a way for the government to directly provide care for children during the day, this shit is so depressing, despite its seemingly populist rhetoric, no world in which this gets you a decent child care system, makes you wonder whether anyone even cares

omg Michigan Law School

You're not a real DC policy wonk if you haven't read dylan matthews 🔸's 4,500-word explainer on the national debt vox.com/policy/367278/…

NEW: Administration intends to bring fight over Affordable Care Act preventive services to the Supreme Court - decision could affect access to critical services for millions of Americans litigationtracker.law.georgetown.edu/litigation/bra…

The average NEPA impact statement takes 4.5 years to complete. That's ridiculous. Here's a list of things that took less time to BUILD than it takes to complete a 575 page impact statement... 1. Golden Gate Bridge - 4 years, 4.5 months

This is an excellent paper (and I’m looking forward to the book too).

Here's a sharp new paper from David Pozen and Nikhil Menezes about the vacuousness of references to "the public" in most public law scholarship. balkin.blogspot.com/2024/08/will-c…

Yes, and broader underdevelopment wrought by strict zoning makes it ever more valuable to get exceptions.

The Michigan Law School Public Law Workshop Dan Deacon & Julian Davis Mortenson have organized this semester is 🔥🔥🔥. So many of my fav #adlaw scholars and friends! 🤓

excellent

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So much ink spilled over unrealized capital gains taxes when the boring obvious normie idea of just ending the step-up basis is sitting right there, largely ignored.

oh so *now* you love the essential health benefits

Cato is against the Manchin-Barrasso permitting reform bill because it doesn't repeal the Jones Act. Kinda like when lefties say, "No climate action until we overthrow capitalism."

Cato was served up an opportunity to take one (1) good policy position on an issue near and dear to their hearts and said, “nope”

For anyone in the Boston area, I'll be debating tylercowen on 'Is Capitalism Defensible' on Monday, September 16, 7-8:30. Link for tickets here: civildiscourse.mit.edu

If you followed this little drama, you might be interested in my new post on the topic, and how Oakland could get better. eatingpolicy.com/p/crime-proble…