SowellPremiseList

• Thomas Sowell, "Spilled Milk," Human Events, [1]

Pemise List

GC: The effort of the EPA to regulate milk spillage is unjustified. 1

P1: Milk producer don't pose the environmental hazard that oil spills do.

P2: It isn't worth the money it will cost to regulate.

2

P1: The taxes needed to pay for the regulations will prevent private sector job creation.

3

P1/IC: This is an example of a beaurocracies' natural tendency to seek power without justification.

P1: EEOC and FCC did.

4

P1/IC: Regulatory agencies justify their regulatory actions by the wrong standards.

P1: Beaurocrats believe that if a regulation does any good it is justified no matter the cost.

P2/IC: But this is at odds with rational decision making about scarce resources, which require comparisons and priorities.

(Note on "examples" vs. "arguments" -- Is Sowell's encyclopedia example part of the argument?)