The binding constraint on building anything in America is permitting and litigation, not money.

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permitting The review a project must pass before it can be built, and the argument that it now blocks more than it protects.

On the topicCan a rich country still build things?under our view: Permission and litigation are what stop a project, not money

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Brian Potter 28 May 2025 Political costs and civic opposition will often make a technology unviable regardless of how the dollars and cents add up. worksinprogress.news

Structural engineer and writer

Their wordsPolitical costs and civic opposition will often make a technology unviable regardless of how the dollars and cents add up.

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↗Why we stopped building subways cheaplyworksinprogress.news

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John H. Cochrane 14 Apr 2025 Endless lawsuits, cost-exploding contracting requirements, decades to get permits, and more bedevil any attempt to invest here. grumpy-economist.com

Economist at the Hoover Institution

Their wordsEndless lawsuits, cost-exploding contracting requirements, decades to get permits, and more bedevil any attempt to invest here.

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↗Tariffs, saving, and investmentgrumpy-economist.com

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Casey Handmer 10 Nov 2023 Yet solar development is hopelessly snarled by dozens of different development regulations which begin with the assumption that it will permanently and severely harm the environment unless proven otherwise, at exhaustive length. caseyhandmer.wordpress.com

Physicist, formerly at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Their wordsYet solar development is hopelessly snarled by dozens of different development regulations which begin with the assumption that it will permanently and severely harm the environment unless proven otherwise, at exhaustive length.

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↗Permitting Reform Or Deathcaseyhandmer.wordpress.com

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Free markets alone cannot solve environmental and energy problems; legislation, regulation, and taxation are also necessary.

MacKay says markets alone cannot solve environmental and energy problems and that legislation, regulation and taxation are needed too. Cochrane and Handmer hold jointly that permitting and litigation, not money, are what stop anything getting built in America. The regulation MacKay wants and the regulation they are describing may not be the same regulation, and nobody involved says which.
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Standardised manufacturing and documentation cannot be skipped when a drug is given to human beings, because the noise they remove is the noise that would otherwise swallow the answer.

Potter, Cochrane and Handmer hold jointly that permitting and litigation, not money, are what stop anything getting built in America. Lowe says standardised manufacturing and documentation cannot be skipped when a drug is given to a human being, because the paperwork is what makes the dose in the vial the dose on the label. The question the pair poses is which parts of a review regime are the fence and which are the toll.

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