Venezuelans Arrested for Baking Sweet Rolls

When it comes to socialism and ham-fisted government intrusion in the economy in general, one country or one generation learns nothing from another, so we keep making the same senseless mistakes again and again. In the dark days of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, tailor Jacob Meged of Jersey City was actually thrown in jail for changing only 35¢ rather than the government-mandated 40¢ to press a suit. That’s the sort of tyrannical lunacy that kept the Great Depression going for so long. These days similar lunacy keeps the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela humming along:

In a press release, the National Superintendent for the Defense of Socioeconomic Rights said it had charged four people and temporarily seized two bakeries as the socialist administration accused bakers of being part of a broad “economic war” aimed at destabilizing the country.

In a statement, the government said the bakers had been selling underweight bread and were using price-regulated flour to illegally make specialty items, like sweet rolls and croissants.

Price-regulated flour = flour in short supply.

The solution to Venezuela’s woes is simple: radically reduce the size and scope of the government. The same could currently be said for healthcare insurance in the USA. But just because something is simple doesn’t mean it is easy.

On a tip from Torcer.