America requires freedom: PLF’s Roadmap to Recovery

We are a nation of creators, inventors, builders, and entrepreneurs. At PLF, we recognize that the only way to recover from the COVID-19 crisis is to unleash our productive energy.

Our “Roadmap to Recovery,” released this week, offers solutions long championed by PLF that explain why government needs to get out of the way in order to save lives now, and when the immediate threat is over, get people back to work.

The Hill: A government agency cannot change the terms of Congress’ COVID-19 relief bill

Last week, the federal government launched the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), a new loan program intended to help small businesses that have partially or fully shut down because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The program’s initial roll-out didn’t go well; many banks delayed or refused to accept loan applications. But Jeffrey McCoy tells us that fixing these issues does nothing to address the far-greater concerns over government agencies’ ability to implement legislation.

A Texas grocery chain predicted COVID-19 and prevented massive shortages

Since early March, grocery shoppers across the country have faced empty shelves, long lines, and watchful guards enforcing government rules. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans are dealing with shortages of staples like flour, yeast, and (inexplicably) toilet paper in our once-well-stocked stores.

Erin Wilcox explains how it seems like no one, from grocery stores to the federal government, was prepared for this crisis.

Except in Texas.

Florida deems WWE ‘essential’ and shows the danger of unchecked government during COVID-19

The governor of Florida and mayor of Orange County this week deemed professional wrestling (Hulk Hogan, John Cena, et al.) to be an “essential activity,” allowing it to go forward despite government orders for the rest of us to shelter in place.

But as Mark Miller writes, Floridians do not like the smell of what these Florida politicians are cookin’.

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