A Much-Needed Bonfire Of Regulations

Posted by freedomforall 6 days, 22 hours ago to Government
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"The bureaucracies simply cannot sit still. They make new rules and regulations daily if only to foil industry, with not a care about what it costs or the impact on economic growth and job creation. The United States has created whole industries entirely devoted to smoothing compliance.

The word “deregulation” doesn’t quite describe the fullness of what we need. The United States needs a raging bonfire of regulatory codes, one that should last for months. What is the path to achieving that? As Gorsuch says, it is not up to the judiciary to make a fundamental difference. That is the job of the legislatures.

In the late 1970s, there was a bipartisan consensus to deregulate three industries: trucking, energy, and telecommunications. All three initiatives were a huge success and the prosperity of the 1980s is owed to these emancipations.

The reason the word “deregulation” fell into disrepute is due to the financial deregulation of 1983, which freed up the banking sector which caught blame for every crisis that followed from the S&L debacle to the 2008 financial crisis. There is a strong reason to believe the assignment of blame here is correct. The problem traces to the doctrine of too-big-to-fail made possible by the Federal Reserve.

There will always be problems with deregulation so long as the government’s printing presses are still in operation. Sadly, these issues added some discredit to the whole idea of deregulation."
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Bonfire?
Burn D.C. to the ground with all lawyers, politicians, bureaucrats, and lobbyists in residence. Save only the Jefferson monument and the founding documents.
SOURCE URL: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/much-needed-bonfire-regulations


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  • Posted by $ SpiritWoman 6 days, 20 hours ago
    And another point to make here, is it can be a way for big business to keep small businesses from competing.
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    • Posted by 6 days, 12 hours ago
      Absolutely! 👍
      Business behemoths use government to force small business to bear irrational costs
      and then when small business can't bear it any more they take over the small business'
      intellectual property for 1% of its value.
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      • Posted by $ SpiritWoman 6 days, 4 hours ago
        And over regulation of property and casualty insurers will have the same effect. Premiums can increase so that the small business owner will go broke trying to find coverage.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 6 days, 13 hours ago
    Excellent article! The gas can spout debacle can still be circumvented by buying a real replacement spout and vent plug. I never spilled so much gasoline as when I was forced to use the new "safety" spout crap. Federal level regulations are just a beginning - I had to get a town permit to change out a water pressure regulator in my house. Other stories I could tell...
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  • Posted by $ SpiritWoman 6 days, 20 hours ago
    Thanks for posting this, freedom. It even mentions Underwriters Laboratories, which is an extra-governmental regulatory institution that we talked about yesterday. Well, it didn't enter the conversation, but we discussed the capability of insurance to safeguard business and customers. I believe UL was started when electric appliances and wiring and such came in vogue.

    Insurance companies have also been highly involved in helping to formulate building codes, and that was mostly begun following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.

    The point is, capitalism can mostly regulate itself. Obamma wouldn't have that. He didn't like insurance, and he said I was immoral because I was a capitalist.
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  • Posted by $ sekeres 6 days, 9 hours ago
    See also: Tucker's Bourbon for Breakfast, et al. https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/jeffrey.... Not to mention: Silverglate's Three Felonies a Day:How the Feds Target the Innocent, Joel Salatin's Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal, Judge Napolitano's It Is Dangerous to Be Right When the Government Is Wrong: The Case for Personal Freedom, and Smedley Butler's War Is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier.
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