John Stossel on Santa-Crushing Red Tape

If you saw a fat man in a sleigh
distributing presents this week, he was in violation of several
government regulations. The Federal Aviation Administration has
complaints about his secret flight path. The Wisconsin Department
of Natural Resources might shoot his unauthorized reindeer the way
they shot a baby deer named Giggles at an animal shelter this year.
His bag of gifts definitely violates numerous charity tax rules. In
real life, writes John Stossel, government barely lets people give
each other rides in cars. Sooner or later, if we restrain the
regulators, the market might even produce flying sleighs.

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