Its necessary to regulate spectrum by the government. I disagree with the author on his point there. As well as other shared resources, like land, air/water quality etc. As well as shared services that we would not be able to provide on an individual basis, defense, security, infrastructure, rule of law, etc.

What concerns me and I see as an example in France is the government will decree something and expect there problems to go away. The solution is not to tell stores to turn their lights off at night its to raise energy prices and then allow businesses to chose when and how much they are willing to pay for energy. I suppose you would be tying the danger of nuclear or the environmental cost of Carbon to the price of energy. Some sort of quasi market solution. Here is a good talk on a quasi market solution to lower traffic in switzerland Ted. France is continually implementing new laws for the sake of fairness. They are considering banning homework NPR. Making things fair will kill your economy. By banning homework you are limiting those who would do amazing things, those who would add extraordinary value to your economy. By taxing the highest earners, Zero Hedge again, you are telling the most productive members of your society that their work is not appreciated and will not be rewarded. What kind of people do you expect to persist in such a society? I know that I'm not hopping over to Paris to give my valuable time to them and their society. Although the US may not exemplify this the most in the modern world, I feel we still have an ideal that your work is appreciated and that whoever you are if what you did is valuable you will be rewarded for it.

That said I do have a fear of government overreach. I think its a matter of self selection. The people who go into government are those who want to gain power by connections, by politics. These people tend to be of a certain type. As they build their power structure they are destined to grab for more. I believe that this is the same reason that cops are often the exactly the kind of people who would abuse authority because they tend to be the self-selected group of people who want to gain power by authority (I'm not saying all cops are bad but who hasn't had an encounter with a cop who wants to fine or arrest you just for the sake of his own power).

As far as hyperbole goes, I wasn't trying to be inflammatory, but I was trying to present some new ideas to the forum. I don't agree with everything in this article and I tried to direct the conversation towards the parts that I found most poignant.

I'm not about to unfollow kleinbl00 but I will say he brought the quality of our conversation down a little bit with the profanity. Its OK kleinbl00 I forgive you, can we still be friends?