Nick Gillespie: How “The Rule of Nobody” Leads to Tyranny by Bureaucrat and Dumb Regulations

If the government that governs least governs
best, writes Nick Gillespie, then the government that governs via a
demented form of “scientific management” and “legal
assembly line” governs worst.

And that’s exactly what we’re getting these days. When the Port
Authority of New York and New Jersey wanted to raise the roadway on
the Bayonne Bridge to accommodate newer, taller ships, the
renovation project seemed pretty straightforward. But it’s turning
out to be anything but simple, thanks to dozens of rules,
regulations, and agencies that are standing in the way of what
everyone agrees in a vital project. The Bayonne Bridge project
exemplifies what Philip K. Howard calls “the rule of nobody” in his
bracing and vital new book about “dead laws and broken
grovernment.”

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