In Washington, President Trump is rolling back regulations. In Paris, the mayor is imposing cumbersome new regulations. It’s not much of a mystery why Marine Le Pen, the French equivalent of Donald Trump, is doing so well. From Eric Peters on a guest post at theburningplatform.com:
In Washington, President Trump announced that environmental regulations are “out of control” – and promised to get them back under control.
In Paris, Mayor Anne Hidalgo (which sounds about as French as fries) has issued a fatwa banning diesel-powered cars built before model year 2001 – and is hoping to ban them all the way through model year 2005.
That’s 32 million cars (14 percent of the vehicle fleet) rendered economically obsolete by legislative edict. Imagine if you owned one of those 32 million. Your car now worthless to you.
Libertarians (I am one) need to grok this.
We do not live in a perfect world and are likely never to experience such. Even if we could Jesus Hoover all the Clovers off the surface of the Earth and deposit them on Planet Clover. Because some of us would have kids and some of those kids would inevitably turn out to be Clovers, too. Plus, we Libertarians are far from unanimous on things.
The point is, who can doubt that we would not be hearing the words, “out of control” and “environmentalism” coming out of the mouth of a President Clinton?
I took flak before the election for urging that Libertarians vote for Trump, arguing that the alternative was far worse. The contrast between Washington and Paris at this moment bears this judgment out.
To continue reading: A Tale of Two Cities. . .
