Posted on 01/15/2024 11:55:50 AM PST by Enterprise
Last week, a federal appeals court overturned a Biden administration rule governing dishwashers. This week, the Supreme Court will hear a case involving the regulation of commercial fishing.
Both are seemingly minor regulatory scuffles that normally would attract little public attention.
But they could mark the beginning of the end of the bloated, unaccountable, extra-constitutional “administrative state” – which today imposes $2 trillion in costs on businesses and consumers and every day eats away at our freedom.
The dishwasher story began during the previous administration when President Donald Trump pushed regulators to allow consumers to buy dishwashers that, well, wash dishes.
As we noted in this space at the time, federal efficiency mandates had become so strict that it took more than three hours for a dishwasher to do (poorly) what older models did in an hour. Under Trump, the Energy Department allowed for a new class of appliance that could do the job in an hour.
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The second, seemingly unrelated news happens this week when the Supreme Court hears arguments in a case involving commercial fishing vessels. This case gives justices the opportunity to turn the regulatory Leviathan inside out.
It case involves a mandate by another regulatory agency, the Commerce Department, which not only told commercial fishing vessel owners that they had to take federal fish inspectors on board but also had to pay the inspectors’ costs.
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So my dishwasher is safe? Juan will be happy to hear this.
Don’t forget about those light bulbs and toilets.
“The $2 Trillion Administrative State”
This weekend’s Wall Street Journal has a bar chart of the job gains over the last year broken into various cateories:
Government: 650,000
Healthcare: 630,000
Leisure and Hospitality: 470,000
Construction: 200,000
Professional and business services: 150,000
Retail sales: 50,000
Financial activities: 40,000
Manufacturing: 20,000
Transportation and warehousing: -50,000
Information: -50,000
Moreover, they were required to pay them $710 per day. These are very small vessels, drag nets for herring, that usually have a crew of 4-6 people, including the captain. Many vessels are lucky to make $500-1000 daily (total haul), and a couple grand when the herring are running.
In essence, the Federal Marine Fisheries agency was forcing them out of business.
Doesn’t say you have to bring the inspectors back to shore.
Ha ha ha ha .... there’s always those accidents, are there?
“Better make it 4 trillion...”
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