Posted on 05/04/2016 7:07:28 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
Do we live in a democracy, or a regulatory dictatorship? It’s hard to tell sometimes, especially after reading the latest annual report on the regulatory state issued by the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
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Minimum wage is essentially a price control measure. The economy is a resilient beast, even with mismanagement.
A return to freedom, growth and opportunity will require Washington to rein in the runaway regulatory state.
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Glad to see you are back paying attention to the important things again! Now that the shiny objects have left the stage we can get down to the business of saving the Republic!
Here are two of Donald Trumps campaign promises:
1. cancel Obama’s unconstitutional executive orders,
2. roll back twenty years of intrusive government regulations.
Let’s start working on getting the outsiders he is going to need in Congress elected so this can happen quickly!
I’ve begun to see the world “Deep State” being used, to describe our governance system in the USA. I think it is apt. In sum, we elect our leaders, but there is much they don’t or can’t decide - as our massive system of government bureaucracy and its cronies, security, and insider big-business simply run on below the surface of this vast ocean, regardless of what political storms are occurring above.
In OBozo's mind that's just a good start with much more to go before he's tossed out of, and they start fumigating the White House next January.
At the beginning of this Republic whatever wasn’t actually forbidden was lawful.
Now whatever isn’t permitted and regulated is often unlawful.
And no new delegated powers to the federal for this transformation either.
I’m gonna go with “regulatory dictatorship”.
Congress has the constitutional responsibility for making all laws, yet they have allowed unelected bureaucrats to actually rule our lives with their rules and regulations. This needs to stop. I’ve known
people that work in gov’t that joke about how voters think that the politicians they elect govern them, when it’s actually the agencies and the bureaucrats working for them that do.
And none of it is constitutional.
Think of regulations as stepping stones to nationalization and total control of all business by the State.
FDR was able to get all kinds of "Dollar a Year" men to supervise the war effort. The Donald should be able to do the same even if he has to up their pay to say $100 to compensate for inflation.
Mrs. Submareener’s father was a dollar a year man in WWII. He ran a butyl alcohol plant in Puerto Rico turning cane sugar into synthetic rubber. We have his checks posted in our home office.
Add to this the cost of taxes. Try $460.00 for a single tank of R-22 freon. We used to buy it for 79 cents a can. Most of the difference now is TAXES that go to the gubment and produce nothing.
NO wonder we are plummeting down.
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