The Transaction Costs of Life Are Soaring

"For a few years, I have been complaining to my husband that the transaction cost of being alive was soaring...and almost always because of increased governmental requirements and ensuing governmental inefficiency....I have no doubt my friend will seek and receive a Certificate of Rehabilitation--what a Orwellian name! When he weighs the transaction cost, friends and family will win out. Or, rather, the true winners will be government fee-mongers, tight-assed bureaucrats and those who cherish total social control." By Wendy McElroy.