Collectively Speaking, We Can Make it Better

What happens when too many cooks are in the kitchen?  The soup gets spoiled.  What happens when too many planners are gathered together in a state operated planning commission?  Buildings get spoiled, or nothing.

Thomas Sowell casts his eye on the Planning Commission in the city of San Mateo, which, in its collective ineptness, is keeping a builder from constructing six condominiums, for seniors, for reasons that leave me agog.

The piece is titled “No-cost decision-making." The concluding paragraph.

"Collective decision-making has had such a bad track record around the world that, by the end of the 20th century, even socialists and communists were turning more decisions over to the market. But apparently the word has not yet reached San Mateo."

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