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Everyone hates taxes but prices > regulations

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Mar 27, 2024
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My dad has a pre-Obama dishwasher at his summer house. It’s loud and cleans dishes really fast, and I like to troll my family by talking about how great it is, though the truth is I’m with Kevin Drum and don’t really care about dishwasher speed. At home we run our dishwasher overnight and unload it in the morning, so 95 percent of the time the speed is irrelevant and I appreciate that my high-efficiency dishwasher is quieter than my dad’s.1

Still, I’m not a Communist and I find it a little odd that this is an area of command-and-control regulation.

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