You know this tax competition thing, that idea that the Statists want to make impossible? Here's why, for it reduces the ability of said Statists to increase taxes.
There's a very good reason why interest rates on mortgages are lower than those on credit cards.
No, the ID card data will never be secure: but then that's not the point of the scheme.
Allowing GM to go bust would free up resources for the more productive parts of the economy.
It's not so much that the rules are mad, it's that the poeple who enforce them are.
Or perhaps just dim: those who do higher degrees in public administration are less intelligent than those who do higher degrees in any other subject.