[T'wit]

You're right, this reeks of France. It is straight out of the Napoleonic Code, which decreed every teeny detail of commerce.

Not that we can gloat. Bureaucrats everywhere and in all times are like this, and we have millions of them. It never occurs to a bureaucrat that the rest of us are fully capable of buying a banana even if it is bent double.

[DUMBGRUNT]

From the article:"To be sure, it covers the surface of society "with a network of small, complicated, painstaking, uniform rules"--the last time I checked there were 185,000 pages of rules and regulations; the EU "does not tyrannize, it hinders, compromises, enervates, extinguishes, dazes" and so on"

How does 185k pg. compare to the blizzard of bs from the US bureaucrats?