Indeed, economic growth is a very simple function of getting taxes, trade, regulation, and money generally right.

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Before Obamacare, health care insurance regulation had been a state function, and each state had written laws mandating that all health insurance policies written in the state must cover certain services.

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From the standpoint of people actually impacted and trying to function in the real world, compliance headaches and job losses driven by regulation are most emphatically costs.

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The focus of regulation must be assault weapons, and their accessories which have no function in sport or self-defense in the hands of the public.

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The degree of regulation should be proportionate to the perceived risk of the new organism, which is a function of certain characteristics of the host plant, such as weediness, toxicity, ability to outcross, etc.

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