Posted on 12/05/2024 6:27:16 AM PST by MtnClimber
There’s not much Donald Trump could ever do as president that will generate more resistance and hatred than bleeding the fetid capital swamp. It’s arguable that there’s nothing he could ever do as president that would be better for the republic.
Trump’s decision to make administration appointments from figures who are outside of the establishment adds to the loathing that so many in the political-media establishment already directed toward him. Various grifters, vipers and unprincipled schemers from both parties have spent their adult lives seeking seats of power, comfort and endless tenure in the capital. To see the secretarial positions, directorships, administrator posts and bureaucratic jobs that they have for years lusted after filled by outsiders makes them angry. No one should feel sorry for them, though. They are a drag on both our civic health and our economy.
In regard to the latter, the damage is more extensive that most would ever guess. A research paper updated during the first year of Trump’s initial term that measured the “cost per regulator” in the bureaucracy reached some appalling yet unsurprising conclusions about Washington’s impact on the private sector. According to the authors, “one regulator costs the U.S. economy the equivalent of 138 private-sector jobs per year.”
Here are a few more choice findings from the paper.
- “Each $1 million change in the regulatory budget is associated with a change of about four regulator jobs.”
- “A 10% cut in the regulatory budget results in a loss of 21,756 regulatory jobs.”
- That same cut “provides for an additional $1.2 trillion in GDP annually over the five-year window, or $244 billion annually.”
- “Each regulator costs the U.S. economy $11 million annually.”
The root cause is, of course, overregulation. Trump needs to continue the deregulatory agenda he promised during his first term, when he said he was committed to cutting the regulatory federal regulatory framework by 75%.
Naturally the Swamp creatures are bitterly opposed, as are the media, which have a thriving parasitic and symbiotic relationship with the administrative system. The Washington Post, for instance, darkly warns that the “most immediate impact” of Trump’s newly created Department of Government Efficiency could “could be to demoralize the federal workforce and increase attrition.”
“Budget experts say the [efficiency] effort could prove hugely disruptive to workers and businesses that rely on certainty in federal regulation and spending,” reports the Post.
Which means corporate rent seekers and industry moochers will have to compete, and competition is always the friend of the consumer – and the more heated it is, the greater the advantages for buyers.
Disrupting the federal regulation machine will also fuel investment and innovation, the keys to economic growth. There’s much for Trump to do over the next four years, but outside of saving us from being overrun by our enemies from without and within, it’s the most important thing he can do.
How could you ever know if you are compliant with every regulation? How many teams of lawyers would it take to get to, lets say 70% certainty?
” The Washington Post, for instance, darkly warns that the “most immediate impact” of Trump’s newly created Department of Government Efficiency could “could be to demoralize the federal workforce and increase attrition.””
Which part of Government Efficiency does WAPO not understand?
“How could you ever know if you are compliant with every regulation?”
That is the whole point. Just about everybody on any given day, is in non-compliance with any number of regulations. Minding your own business is not enough, and nobody can be that vigilant.
“Show me the man, and I will find the crime” - Lavrentiy Beria
Also “Scream or not, it doesn’t matter”
BTTT
Cutting the Bureaucracy by 50% and dumping the income tax will take us back to some semblance of the constitutional republic.
You can't.
Every day you will break several regulations either because you do not know they exist or because they are mutually contradictory. And that is just federal. When you throw in state or local you are just up a creek.
The latest example of this is Musk's rocket company. Because it is a company with military implications he can not hire anyone unless they are an American Citizen. And he got hit for not hiring, "refugees" (AKA illegal aliens). You can not do both of those things at the same time. It is impossible.
Which is the way they like it.
If some bureaucrat takes you in dislike for some reason they can land on you like a ton of bricks and the pious little FReepers Staists that infest the board will agree that you should be hang because "Ve are a nation of LAWS comrade"
There are/will be a lot of swamp critters wanting to assassinate Pres. Trump. Pray for his safety.
The regulations need to be rewritten to be concise, logically ordered and understandable.
Every agency should be given a restrictive regulatory word budget by Congress, with restrictions in one typeface and exceptions which do not count against the word budget in another typeface.
These should be compared to foreign regulations while in preparation.
Computers made regulatory explosion easy.
Joe accomplices are handing out billions to leeches.
This is possible because Congress doesn’t do a proper job.
What was already intolerable became orders of magnitude worse.
Federal Economic and Social Programs 1956
https://files.taxfoundation.org/legacy/docs/gfb02os-19550401.pdf
Federal Budget Proposal of Eisenhower 1956
https://www.jct.gov/getattachment/123a0430-06a5-4bc2-9bd8-03b5819a27f8/jct-3-55-4267.pdf
“Government spending has been cut by more than ten billion dollars. Nearly three hundred thousand positions have been eliminated from the Federal payroll. Taxes have been substantially reduced. A balanced budget is in prospect. Social security has been extended to ten million more Americans and unemployment insurance to four million more.”
https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/file/1956_state_of_the_union.pdf
Federal Budget Trends 1962-72
https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/SpecialAnalysis71-10-compressed-1.pdf?x85095
A federal regulation generally should have a corresponding foreign regulation in most advanced countries.
A federal entity generally should have a corresponding foreign entity in most advanced countries.
That’s what is necessary now, multiplied by a hundred or so.
“Autonomy as a guiding principle: each political entity is allocated as many tasks as possible before the next-highest entity takes over.”
https://www.eda.admin.ch/aboutswitzerland/en/home/politik-geschichte/politisches-system.html
I don't know. In the EU they have gone crazy with regulations. Many are made to exclude foreign competition. I remember seeing that a toothbrush must meet over 100 EU regulations and a bath towel must also meet over 100 regulations. If you have to do compliance certification with testing, inspection or paperwork validation then the costs become prohibitive and serve little or no public benefit.
I don’t have time to further explore from this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_budget_of_Switzerland
I suspect Switzerland should furnish a useful roadmap.
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