Posted on 12/30/2014 7:18:02 AM PST by reaganaut1
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Instead of talking about new laws to enact and regulations to impose, it’s time to start talking about old ones that should be repealed. Your predecessors in office – and quite possibly you – have done grave damage to America with swarms of laws and regulations that take liberty and property away from the people, waste resources, enrich and empower special interest groups, and undermine the rule of law.
The very best, most public-spirited thing you could do would be to repeal them.
Here is a starter list.
The Davis-Bacon Act. This law is a relic of the Depression, intended to “protect” the wages of white construction workers against competition from black workers who would accept lower wages. The concept is simple: on federal construction projects, the cost of labor is not open to competition because the Department of Labor fixes the rates at the union scale.
Thus, it boils down to a governmentally-enforced price-fixing scheme that benefits a few construction workers at the expense of the taxpayers. I wrote about a recent flap over Davis-Bacon in this article.
The Higher Education Act. The federal government has no constitutional authority to do anything with regard to higher education (or any level, for that matter). But in 1965, Congress was swarming with “progressives” who were sure that because college seemed to be a good thing for the rather small percentage of Americans who went, the nation would benefit if almost everyone went.
So the federal policy began to make higher education more “accessible” for students, most significantly through grants and easily available loans. The result was that college education was transformed.
It had been a good that some Americans thought worthwhile, so they strove to qualify for admittance and saved for the modest cost.
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They forgot 0bamacare and his illegal immigration actions.
For every new word of Law or administrative proceedure/policy, two words of the detritus of bygone years need to be expunged.
I’d go one step further and make it the year of eliminating useless and overbearing federal agencies and departments:
DOE
DOE
EPA
NEA
DHHS
DHS
HUD
IRS
DOL
DOT
etc. etc. etc.
Add the DoD to the list, go back the Navy and War Depts.
I agree.
Good call.
When I took office as Mohave County Supervisor, the fifth largest county land wise in the US with a 200,000+ population, I was appalled to learn none of our laws and ordinances were codified. We voted to do that, found a company that does that. The process has taken about a year. When that’s all done, I will ask a volunteer group, (tea Partiers) to go through them and recommend which one are not applicable or obsolete or just plain stupid and we’ll take them off.
At every political rally each and every candidate should be asked what laws he or she will submit bills to abolish. Our legal and legislative landscape are minefields waiting to be exploded by vengeful bureaucrats.
This guy is right and when you listen to all the GOP presidential candidates try to find one that can bring themselves to name even one rogue unnecessary govt agency they could bear to shut down. Good luck. So far the only person has been Newt Gingrich.
FTFY.
Move Congress to some cornfield in Kansas 400 miles from the nearest airport. Does it HAVE to be in DC?
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