Philip Howard
Founder and Chair, Common Good. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Philip K. Howard is an American lawyer and civic leader who founded Common Good, a nonpartisan coalition advocating to simplify bureaucratic regulation. He is best known as the author of the bestselling 1995 critique The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America.
1shows
1appearances
12statements
5resolved
4supported
0contradicted
80%fully supported
Everything Philip Howard said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Howard: Most Environmental Groups Have Become Insidious Forces
“And I mean, not all environmental groups, but most of them are really have become insidious forces and In our society.”
Howard: Slow Environmental Reviews Dramatically Harm the Environment
“All these lengthy environmental reviews turn out to be dramatically harmful to the environment because we can't fix the bottlenecks. We can't create the new transmission lines that carry electricity from the, you know, renewable sources and such. It's overwhel…”
Howard: Civil Service Reform Act Made Accountability Impossible
“The Civil Service Reform Act in 1978, which made it impossible to hold anybody accountable, you know, was at the end of the seventies”
Howard: Replacing Human Judgment with Rulebooks Paralyzed Government
“There was a kind of a fatal theoretical flaw that they, ah, that they committed, ah, which was to try to create a government that was better than people. They wanted to create governing as a kind of a software program where, If you had a thousand-page rule boo…”
Howard: Common Good Preparing Constitutional Lawsuit Against Public Union Power
“We're at the beginning of doing this white paper, which we hope to do in the next two or three months on unmanageability, and then we have, we already have a draft complaint that we're working on, that we've developed, and so then we're going to go to the Trum…”
Howard: Thousands of worker safety rules actually hurt safety
“So when you have 4000 worker safety rules, most of which are completely self-evident, it doesn't actually help, there's studies of this, it doesn't help worker safety. It actually hurts worker safety, because figuratively speaking, people have their noses in t…”
Howard: 90% of Brandon Johnson's Campaign Funds Came From Unions
“Well, the government, the current governor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, 90% of his election funds came from the unions.”
Howard: Pruning regulations fails because remaining mandatory rules still paralyze systems
“They think you can just cut some of it out. You can't cut some of it out and have it work. You can't prune a jungle. The jungle grows back. So let's say you cut 80% of the rules and the processes. The 20% that's left is still mandatory.”
Howard: US federal government has 162 unreviewed STEM training programs
“You know, we have a 162 STEM training programs, and no, in the federal government, nobody goes to see if they work or consolidate.”
Howard: US has 150 million words of binding federal law and regulation
“It's actually a hundred and fifty million words of binding federal law and regulation.”
Howard: Hudson River Tunnel Project Is Taking 30 Years to Complete
“A tunnel under the Hudson, which had already been the subject of environmental studies is still taking 30 years to do.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Philip's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 AMERICAN OPTIMISTLEDGER | Founder and Chair, Common Good | 1 | 12 | 80% 4/5 | full record on American Optimist → |