​The Growing Tyranny of the Whack-a-Mole Regulatory State

​The Growing Tyranny of the Whack-a-Mole Regulatory State
The Environmental Protection Agency in Washington on Dec. 12, 2018. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times
Mark Hendrickson
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The federal bureaucracies, “the swamp,” the administrative state, the unelected petty tyrants embedded in the executive branch of the federal government—call it what you will. I’ll call it the regulatory state. The regulatory state is on the verge of putting an end to a free and prosperous United States of America. The enormous costs of the regulatory state are both economic and political.

Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.
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