is the new "normal".

By your thinking, airlines ought to be allowed to operate using experimental aircraft and stock aircraft that are not properly maintained. It's one thing for an inventor to be reckless and kill himself. It's another when you take paying customers.

There was little opportunity to prevent Stockton Rush from operating an unsafe vessel outside of a totalitarian environment we wouldn't want. However, when you start offering rides to paying customers, things change. That should and can be regulated. It is hard to hide. Furthermore, Rush fired staff who pointed out the problems. A better whistleblower system might have made their voices heard.

Garbage regulations like IP create these behemoths. If you want freedom, stop regulating monopolies into existence.

I'm not even sure if it's that deliberate, or it's just the fact that Trump is thinking about rigging the election... so he talks about rigging the election.

But it's hilarious how consistent the pattern is. Normally with something like that there's just a few occasional examples. But with Trump if he says "Democrats are kicking puppies!" chances are that we're about to find out that Trump kicked a puppy.

ISTM that the perps are most often social conservatives, such as leaders of regressive religions.

If that's the case, I shudder to think what it was like in the Middle Ages. Or in certain countries today.

"No money exchanged hands in the making of this contract."

Statism creates billionaires.

Fleeing with hoarded money isn't likely to hurt the state.

IIRC, moderately high wages are taxed at a higher rate than capital gains.

Actually, we need to roll back decades of tax cuts so we can afford our civilization.

Can you support that claim?

Also, more productive for whom?

You don't need government approval for each trip in your car. That's a major difference between what China is requiring for drones and US driving laws.

And if they did, the Party of Personal Responsibility would just blame it on Biden.

Define crypto as share trading, and tax it accordingly.