Bailout for Santa Claus?
Well, why not? It seems like everyone else is asking for a bailout on somebody else’s dime. Why not me? I am delighted to take this opportunity to explain why I oppose all bailouts. You may wonder why I sent my elf Edgerton to Washington. It is unfortunate, shameful, even, that so many Americans treat lobbying as the practice of gaining other people’s money or political advantages over their competitors. My sole interest in keeping a lobbyist is frankly to protect myself from you. Take labor. My elves are perfectly happy to work for me, and those who wish to work elsewhere are free to do so. (I’m delighted that several of my former employees made it big in Hollywood.) Our employment arrangement is properly between us. Yet some Americans, in a misguided desire to protect their own industries, keep trying to export the crazy American labor laws that go far beyond protecting the right to freely associate. These laws instead artificially boost the wages of some at the expense of consumers
