You're absolutely right. The essay linked to is indeed dead wrong. I know because I did research on so-called trucking deregulation for my book "OverRegulated".
The opponents of deregulation, who invented the "era of deregulation" lie will never stop advocating taking away ever more of our economic freedom. There was no era of deregulation; for over a century we have had a steadily increasing flood of government regulation. The 1980 repeals were a drop in the bucket; more overregulation quickly replaced the small amount of deregulation.
You're absolutely right. The essay linked to is indeed dead wrong. I know because I did research on so-called trucking deregulation for my book "OverRegulated".
The opponents of deregulation, who invented the "era of deregulation" lie will never stop advocating taking away ever more of our economic freedom. There was no era of deregulation; for over a century we have had a steadily increasing flood of government regulation. The 1980 repeals were a drop in the bucket; more overregulation quickly replaced the small amount of deregulation.
The argument is that regulation was merely transferred, rather than got rid of.
I’m not saying we need more, we need less.
I understand. And the regulation was not merely transferred, it was increased. By a lot.