From the article:<p><pre><code> a constituent who worked at a day-care facility complained to her that she was not “legally allowed to peel bananas or oranges for the kids.” Why not? “She said peeling fruit is considered food prep.”
she introduced the “Banana Act,” a bill that would create a “positive right to serve fresh fruits and vegetables in day care.”
Candidates perennially tell us that they’re the ones who understand the pain of being constrained by thickets of red tape — the warriors of common sense who will pick up a machete and hack away at the meddling of clueless elites who gaze down on real life from up high.
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Experience and history shows us that sincere, reg-reforming politicians fall into 2 camps.<p>One promises <i>responsible</i> regulatory reform. They next spend years fighting ineptitude, indifference and resistance and ultimately fail to reform much of anything.<p>The other promises <i>broad</i> regulatory reform but only targets regs that their campaign donors don't like. They're perfectly happy to add regs for political ends like appeasing the easily-affronted faction of their base.<p>In either case, meaningful reform never ever happens because regulation is tightly protected by humanity's most pervasive, unaddressed flaw. Which is<p><pre><code> No one anywhere wants to clean their own house.
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To be fair, this principle ruins everything it can, not just regs. But the inbuilt complexity of regs makes them especially susceptible to it.