Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy promise to vastly reduce government inefficiency in the administrative state. And don't get me wrong, saving $2 trillion annually in federal spending sounds great to me.

But the problem isn’t just that there are too many bureaucrats doing a poor job. It’s that the entire idea of regulation as performed by those agencies is antithetical to America’s most basic principles.

People have a right to buy and sell food and drugs the government doesn’t deem safe, pay and earn wages the government thinks are too low, and do virtually everything else the administrative state sets out to prohibit.

I think people on my list would agree with most of that but some would pause at the word "sell." Surely we have a right to ensure we aren't being sold unhealthy food or dangerous drugs, don't we?

No, you don't. 

I walk through it step by step on today's episode of Tom Mullen Talks Freedom. And I provide plenty of history to prove my argument isn't a purely academic or theoretical one. The world would be far better without what we call regulation.

Listen to Episode 186 here...

Tom Mullen is the author of It’s the Fed, Stupid and Where Do Conservatives and Liberals Come From? And What Ever Happened to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness? 

 Tom