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Janerik Larsson
Janerik Larsson
I USA Today hittade jag en arg attack mot den nya klassen, dvs de byråkrater som ständigt skapar nya regleringar som gör att deras byråkratier måste få ökade resurser samtidigt som livet blir alltmer komplicerat för medborgare och företagare:
The New Class isn’t just in the government, and it isn’t just about money. Along with the government employees are numerous others in related positions, all of which have something to do with facilitating political control: journalism, academia, the entertainment media. These people tend to have a degree of class solidarity; that’s why the news media overwhelmingly tend to define social problems in terms of government solutions, why academia favors a pro-government-power narrative, and why Hollywood productions have businessmen as villains far more often than bureaucrats. This class solidarity tends to encourage more work for the New Class. And the New Class tends to expand its reach, while simultaneously retarding growth and prosperity, until economic reality asserts itself.
Paradoxalt nog är förfatatren en juridikprofessor och alla som känner till något om USA vet vad fler jurister innebär…snacka om den makthavande klassen !
Artikelförfattren Glenn Harlan Reynolds är juridikprofessor på University of Tennessee:
En mindre slängig och mycket träffsäkrare kritik av det överreglerade USA såg jag i The Economist. Där konstateras att för USAs företagare är regelraseriet (red tape) idag ett mycket större problem än skattetrycket:
Overall, the evidence is clear that too much red tape retards growth. One study found that countries that move from the bottom to the top quartile in the World Bank’s Doing Business index grow 2.3 percentage points a year faster, for example. The gap between the most- and least-business-friendly parts of America is nowhere near as wide as the gap between the best and worst countries, but it still matters. States with a lighter touch tend to create more jobs, as Texas illustrates. (—) With budgets strained, states and cities have less scope than before to attract businesses by offering them subsidies or tax breaks. Hacking away at red tape is a cheaper way to create jobs. Reviewing every existing licence would be a start: do you really need the state’s permission to be an interior designer or a hairdresser? And all new state laws should face both a strict cost-benefit analysis and include a “sunset clause” so that they are automatically repealed after, say, ten years, unless lawmakers reauthorise them. Leviathan’s tentacles are strangling economic growth, and cutting some of them back would be a cheap way to promote it.
Att få fason på regelhysterien har många svenska regeringar försökt med högst begränsad framgång. Men man ska aldrig ge upp !