This article,  gives several examples of the tip of the bloated bureaucratic iceberg.

FDA Starts To Take Control Of Organic Farms

http://healthimpactnews.com/2014/fda-starts-to-take-control-of-american-organic-farms/

 

Joel Salatin’s “Everything I Want to do is Illegal” would give many others.

Without government control, how would you know your food supply is safe? WITH government control, how do you know? Individual responsibility is the key. If someone gets sick from eating anything that we produce, we should be held individually liable. That means we also get insurance, so we will have to meet safety… standards set by the insurance company as well as our own safety standards.

We eat what we produce. That represents a significant safety standard in itself. We do not sell anything that we would not eat. Not perfect, but workable. Much of what we eat, regulations prevent us from selling even though it is demonstrably superior (in bacteria count, freedom from hormones, herbicides, pesticides) to what we can buy in the supermarket. Government regulations, unnecessary government regulations, add tens and sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars to an operation, thereby stifling productivity.

For yet another example, if you were to stand a 9V battery on end, the tax returns we just filed will be at least as tall as that battery. Just how much did the preparation of those returns add to our productivity?

Those of us who believe that government has gotten too big can cite many examples from our own direct experience of the oppressive impact of excessive regulation.

 

***Gary A. Howie MSc, PhD*** is a business owner/rancher and a Life & Liberty News contributor