Bureaucracy, Labor, & Tariffs: How Government Is Making BLTs More Expensive
The BLT—a delicious celebration of the power of markets—exemplifies political attacks on the free movement of goods and people.
Life might be like a box of chocolates, but the economy? It's more like a sandwich.
Whether we're talking about a club, a Reuben, or a hoagie, every sandwich is the result of supply chains that stretch across the country and around the world.
Final assembly takes place at the deli counter—or in your kitchen, if you prefer the DIY version—but those layers of meat, bread, and veggies depend on hundreds of people working to sow, irrigate, feed, reap, slaughter, knead, package, and ship.
Economist Leonard Read famously observed that no one on Earth is capable of single-handedly making a pencil.
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