By: J. Moses Browning
Actually, we have a lot less of that stuff in liberal Arlington, Virginia that there is in liberal Austin, Texas, because our local govmints only have the powers delegated to them by the General...
View ArticleBy: Rich
In the same vein: http://townhall.com/columnists/johnstossel/2012/02/24/creators_oped
View ArticleBy: him
Ha, in south Arlington, Texas, for years a local judge would not allow a liquor license for a local hooters, so when you went there, hooters would give you the beer for free (2 beer limit officially,...
View ArticleBy: Rich K
Local or national ,when you give apperachicks power to make rules by fiat this is what you get.Vote the S.O.B commisioners out or make their ears bleed with your anger at a county meeting. Or suffer as...
View ArticleBy: Ellen
I ran into one of those historic preservation laws. The building I worked in was historic — but had to be upgraded for handicap access. Talk about a bundle of angry polecats! One insisted this; the...
View ArticleBy: comatus
When John Hospers ran for President in 1972 on the first Libertarian ticket, his best stump speech was his story of trying to start an ice-cream shop in New York City. The LP, and libertarian sentiment...
View ArticleBy: Jay Reding.com | Leviathan Unchained
[...] that there are too many regulations on small business, they are absolutely right. Take for example what happened to a small business trying to operate a beer garden in Arlington, Virginia....
View ArticleBy: David Croson (@ProfDC)
Obviously we need a beer-in, to demonstrate that the community supports Westover. Who’s with me?
View ArticleBy: ah
I suppose it depends on how narrowly or broadly one defines a barrier to entry (Mr. Stigler meet Mr. Bain). To be sure, complying with the regulations is a cost of doing business, just as having the...
View ArticleBy: Josh Wright
I understand well the various definitional disputes over BTE in the economics literature (FWIW, I prefer Harold Demsetz’s approach: “the problem of defining ownership is precisely that of creating...
View ArticleBy: Save the Westover Beer Garden
Arlington County’s position that the outdoor patio at the Beer Garden has to be seasonal isn’t supported by the documentation they’ve provided on their website. The Market’s use permit does not require...
View ArticleBy: David
I may be biased since I stop by Westover on occasion (BTW, it’s close the GMU law school, you should stop by one evening Josh!) but this all part of a long running dispute that one local resident has...
View ArticleBy: ah
This doesn’t sound so much like a barrier to entry as an unduly burdensome, and potentially non-sensical, regulation.
View ArticleBy: Josh Wright
The two are not mutually exclusive; a unduly burdensome and costly regulation from the perspective of a potential entrant beer garden sure seems appropriate described as a barrier to entry to me.
View ArticleBy: Instapundit » Blog Archive » LOCAL BARRIERS TO ENTRY: Arlington Beer...
[...] LOCAL BARRIERS TO ENTRY: Arlington Beer Garden Edition. [...]
View ArticleBy: Paul A'Barge
Man, my hair lit on fire … and then I realized you mean Arlington, VA. Not Arlington, TX. Whew, relief. We really, and I mean REALLY do NOT like this kind of government fascism down in Texas. On the...
View ArticleBy: DC Preservation Watch
There’s another kind of hyper-local regulation in the form of historic preservation laws. Preservationists are kind of like environmentalists: absolutists with no sense of trade-off.
View ArticleBy: Don
I have no sympathy. Arlington is famously liberal. When you vote for these people, this is what you get. These people believe in intrusive, aggressive, pervasive government and your fellow citizens...
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