It’s Like Planned Economies Don’t Work Or Something…

(Via Mike Munger)

When the government starts mandating that organizations use things which don’t exist, you have problems.  This kind of idiocy—and then following through on fines because organizations didn’t buy something which didn’t exist!—is a natural outcome of government control.  The major difference between the US and USSR in this case is that at least the government officials in charge of the businesses knew the game well enough to lie through their teeth…