"If you have 10,000 regulations," Winston Churchill said, "you destroy all respect for law."
Isn't that water already well past the bridge?
The regulations increase every year without regard for either efficiacy or adverse unintended consequences and the impacts are real decreases in the quality of life and standards of living for all Americans.
Granted that there are, as Rus Roberts put it, no solutions just tradeoffs, I would love to re-elect someone like Congressman Jim Cooper who advocates a legislation reduction.
From the author:
"He was right. But Churchill never imagined a government that would add 10,000 year after year. That's what we have in America. We have 160,000 pages of rules from the feds alone. States and localities have probably doubled that. We have so many rules that legal specialists can't keep up. Criminal lawyers call the rules "incomprehensible." They are. They are also "uncountable." Congress has created so many criminal offenses that the American Bar Association says it would be futile to even attempt to estimate the total."
Leaves me to wonder if our government will end like the proverbial snowball flying down a mountainside, crushed by its own weight and out of control momentum.
Isn't that water already well past the bridge?
The regulations increase every year without regard for either efficiacy or adverse unintended consequences and the impacts are real decreases in the quality of life and standards of living for all Americans.
Granted that there are, as Rus Roberts put it, no solutions just tradeoffs, I would love to re-elect someone like Congressman Jim Cooper who advocates a legislation reduction.
From the author:
"He was right. But Churchill never imagined a government that would add 10,000 year after year. That's what we have in America. We have 160,000 pages of rules from the feds alone. States and localities have probably doubled that. We have so many rules that legal specialists can't keep up. Criminal lawyers call the rules "incomprehensible." They are. They are also "uncountable." Congress has created so many criminal offenses that the American Bar Association says it would be futile to even attempt to estimate the total."
Leaves me to wonder if our government will end like the proverbial snowball flying down a mountainside, crushed by its own weight and out of control momentum.
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