[Qbert]

"The Obama administration has relied less on voluntary compliance and more on tools for enforcement of regulations aimed at protecting worker safety, consumer health and the environment grabbing power and controlling people"

[Nachum]

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[camp_steveo]

Enforcing regulations already in place is much better than creating new regulations.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Except for enforcing the borders.....

[marsh2]

Stringent enforcement has a cost. Enforcement is the use of force to affect change. Too much force and too fast a change will evoke a backlash. People need to feel in control of their destiny and the implementation of change. They need to understand why things must change, and ideally, to agree with it. Previously law abiding people will balk at compliance when they can’t afford to comply, find the bureaucracy too cumbersome or have no buy-in to the reason for compliance - seeing it as benefitting someone else, or a taking from them to give to someone else. “I’m from the government and I am here to help you,” is a long-standing joke in rural areas.

In agricultural communities, a model for change is already well established. A willing farmer allows the ag extension or NRCS to make changes to his practices or introduce a new crop and, when it is successful, a field tour is provided to other farmers to showcase the new way. Having armed enforcement agents come out to your property and threaten you for not having a permit is not going over real well in these parts. (We are currently experiencing this with the state.)