Why Atlas Shrugged

Atlas Shrugged is a novel by Ayn Rand that was published in 1957. The moral of the story is that Politicians usually over-respond to a crisis. They go 5 times too far in response so that they can show the voters that they did something big. They spawn new government programs, laws and regulations. These generate more havoc and poverty, which inspires the politicians to create even more programs.

That book is fiction.
This book is reality. I believe that Atlas has shrugged and businesses have ...