Americans have gotten used to fast, cheap, and even free shipping — but growing federal regulations could be driving those costs straight back onto consumers. New research warns government red tape is acting like a hidden tax on transportation, raising shipping prices and slowing productivity across trucking, rail, air, and freight industries.

Patrick McLaughlin, Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Visiting Research Fellow at the Pacific Legal Foundation, joins us to discuss whether Washington’s regulatory pile-up is making everyday goods more expensive and threatening the future of free shipping.

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