Bastiat Shoots, Shovels and Shuts up

Extreme environmental coercion leads to unintended consequences.  Bastiat would be proud. HT Carepe Diem.  Of  course now we are happily killing lots more bald eagles and other raptors now in the name of 'environmental purity'.  That would tickle Msr. Bastiat as well.

Today (May 18) is Endangered Species Day, and in the LearnLiberty.org video above Professor Don Boudreaux explains how the Endangered Species Act of 1973 might have good intentions (preserve threatened animals), in reality it often has the effect of giving landowners strong reasons to kill any endangered species they find on their property. This phenomenon is known as "shoot, shovel, and shut up," and is one of the unintended consequences of government regulation.