Toilet Regulation and Private Solutions
I was at Harvard Law School for the American Law and Economics Association meeting last weekend. I unfortunately forgot my camera, but I can at least report on the clever new green-colored toilet handles there. You push them up for a small flush and down for a large
flush, thus economizing on water. MR tells me these are well-known in
Japan. It is completely superior to the foolish US regulation that
some years ago required new toilets to have water tanks of inadequate
size. That regulation is one of my examples of how liberalism and
ugliness are allies. Another is the requirement for handicapped
bathrooms. Liberals think society must be forced to make bathrooms a
bigger component of all buildings, and a dirtier one.