Posted on 12/05/2024 6:27:16 AM PST by MtnClimber
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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