We're adults. We're the ones who should teach the kids what's good to eat. I don't think the government should ever regulate what we eat at home but we're feeding them in school with tax dollars. Quite frankly if my tax dollars are being spent to feed kids I'd rather feed them better food.
In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.
It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power.
It's a very different thing religion and faith. Religion is man-made it's man-regulated. And faith you can define God as you wish. But I think they're two different things.
Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science environmental management government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.
There is not necessarily a good reason why a regulator should have to be involved in product design and marketing for rich and sophisticated investors. We recommend that such investors should be able to sign a piece of paper which allows them to go ahead and buy unregulated products at their own risk.
If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong then you have to change your government.
A well regulated militia composed of the body of the people trained in arms is the best most natural defense of a free country.
My opponents attitude is 'If it moves tax it if it keeps moving regulate it and when it stops subsidize it.
I like that the art world isn't regulated.