Wednesday, September 26, 2012
By comparison....
Every now and then, amid the deepening gloop**, it's nice to notice that subsidiarity is still slightly alive in America, at least compared to Europe.
From England:
Ministers unveiled plans on September 6 to double the size of home extensions that can be built without planning permission, to 6m (19ft) beyond the back wall of a semi-detached house, or 8m (26ft) in the case of a detached house. The relaxation in the rules, for a fixed three year period, is designed to stimulate construction activity. But delegates lined up to criticise the plans....This level of microcontrol by the national level has been present for a long time in Britain; it's not just a modern envirowacko thing. Our envirowackos would love to impose such precisely measured tyranny on everyone at once, but they can't. ** Typo, but turns out to be a real and beautifully appropriate word, so I'll leave it there. ¶ 4:44 AM
