A recent commentary in American Thinker reminded me of yet another example of seemingly minor abuse of citizens by the government – minor until one considers the overall accumulation of these unjust burdens.  The regulators who are supposed to proctect the public mostly protect the interests they are supposed to regulate.  Nobel Prize-winning economist George Stigler calls it "regulatory capture." I had thought the practice that victimized me to be too minor to complain about at any great length, although I did file a report with the NCUA, the National Credit Union Administration.  The response I got was the typical stonewall we citizens have come to expect, and sadly to accept, from the lords and masters who make the rules – rules to benefit themselves, and not the people who pay their salaries through taxes. Describing the incident briefly, I accepted a check as payment of a debt from a credit union account holder.  Because I did not...(Read Full Post)