We’ve all seen the ads. We watch happy middle-aged people fly kites and walk their dogs while a voiceover tells us how a certain Wonderdrug changed their lives. Then we get to the part — sometimes longer than the positive part — where we hear all the warnings. One of them is, “Don’t take Wonderdrug if you are allergic to Wonderdrug."

Really?

Every time I see these ads, I wonder which federal law requires such silliness. The scary thing is that, even as an attorney, it would take me hours of painstaking research to find the answer to that question. We Americans are a people who are positively mired in well-intentioned laws that do nothing positive. They only create more noise, paper, and taxes.

Another Bill, Another Bureaucracy...