Isn’t $1.9 Trillion A Year Lost to Federal Regulations Enough?
Author WDonway: "The question goes to the heart of government power versus individual liberty. It is the question that defined America. And today it has application to every single action of government, and, unfortunately, directly or indirectly, every decision in every American life. Any candidate who fails to address that question seriously, credibly, and often may be assumed to be taking for granted that politics, and the office they seek, is exclusively about the exercise of power, how to increase it—and probably how much they crave such power."
They crave the power. It's their opiate. The clowns that rule know nothing about producing. 188,000 pages of regulations when 1168 pages of a certain book should suffice.
The cost to manufactures from these edicts is over $19,000 per year per employee. According to Frank Buckley the foundation professor at Scalia law School in the U S A if we regressed to Denmarks level of Government corruption we would add 20 % to a workers income. This country should be so wealthy and economically vibrant that we would as a side effect lift the rest of the worlds standard of living.
Regards,
DOB
Income taxation also restricts productivity and innovation, so it MUST go.
Progressives would like nothing more than to shut down the remaining portions of free market out there so they can control and administer them. This is nothing more than an expansion of power with that goal in mind.
The only way we are going to get back our country is to get enough people educated and sick of being told what to do that they actively close large sections of the government and free us from these self-imposed slave-masters. The only other option will be a revolution.
It is performed by unelected, unaccountable, beaurocrats with no effective oversight.
An administrative fan dance hiding death by thousands of quasi-legal cuts.
You are the expert but don't trademarks, copywrights, and patents fall under USC somewhere? If so that would be a combination of law and regulation.
Many regulations don't have legislative backing. Many iare not evenly or fully enforced, regardless of its origin.
Example: seat belts. Many states mandate the use of seatbelts in motor vehicles. Some pass laws about seat belts, some so not. Whether any given state mandates seatbelts through law, regulation, or both....how many school busses enforce their use or even have them installed?
"trademarks, copywrights, and patents fall under USC somewhere?" yes but they also have CFR that apply.
Regulations are far easier to emplace or change than laws are since less attention is paid to them. And in the rare instances where there is extreme blowback, it is just as easy to change or remove.
In other cases they know legislative action would fail so they backdoor it with the regulatory route. For example, Congress would not pass a climate change bill, so the President had the EPA start gutting the coal industry thorough regulation.
This can happen at any level, although I do think that it is somewhat less common at the state level than it is at the federal or direct local levels.
The proper method should be legislation and if needed regulation to clarify and define. But that requires follow through.
People, especially politicians, like easy "fixes". So alphabet agencies at every level expand to exert the force that failed at the legislative level. Or to exert force in place of the legislative action that failed or was never even attempted.
They regulate and WE have to figure out how to still exist under the regulations. I am tired of it. I left the medical device industry years ago with the advent of the new FDA regulations on medical devices. I shrugged, as I suspect a lot of people do every day as regulations get more and more detailed and generalized.
And according to an article I was about to post independently before I spotted your post here, kahlling, its the "invisible" well-paid clowns who work for elected clowns who come up with the bulk of the regulations.
http://www.wnd.com/2016/10/survey-d-c...
government employees simply put do not care
Just bread and circuses until the revolution. Then lots of bloodshed. Few have the stomach for it.