The Growing Threat Of "Dark Matter" Regulations

http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/120915-784625-the-growing-threat-of-dark-matter-regulations.htm ^ | 12/09/2015 | Editorial

[expat_panama]

Big Government: Civics books say the U.S. is a representative democracy. But the truth is that it's increasingly becoming a regulatory dictatorship, a trend made clear in a disturbing new report on the scale of federal rules.

In his seven years in office, President Obama has signed 895 bills into law. Over the same period, federal regulators issued 24,478 rules. If you want an example of how unaccountable the federal government has become, it doesn't get much better than that.

The regulatory state is so massive that the government doesn't even know how many regulatory agencies there are. Counts range from a low of 60 to a high of 438.

But this is just the tip of the regulatory iceberg...

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...politically expedient changes to Obama-Care and turn most independent contractors into employees. More than 1,400 directives target the financial industry — 49 from the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Congress is as much to blame for this terrible state of affairs as anyone. Both because they write laws that hand vast powers over to regulators and because, as Crews notes, they rarely use their oversight authority to rein regulators in.

This has to change, and fast, if the nation is to avoid becoming ruled entirely by unelected and unaccountable Washington bureaucrats.

[stockpirate]

It’s actually a fascist dictatorship....

[expat_panama]

O actally did say that he wanted a “third way” half way between capitalism and communism (just like Mussolini and Hitler preached) but the bulk of the evidence (imho) is that he’s just a common typical Marxist.

[citizen]

Several of your headlines argue for no rate increase....maybe they all do.
-Swiss Central Bank Keeps Rates in Negative Zone
-A Lack of Growth, Not Inequality, Is the Real Problem
-Rate Hike Flies In Face of a Bad Job Market
-The Arguments Against A Rate Hike Pile Up

I saw a headline somewhere about the case for no rate increase being compelling and is getting more so.

I know I’m tired of it. I thinking maybe I’ll give it a rest during the holidays and check back in a month or so.

[citizen]

That which is not prohibited, is compulsory.

The liberal-progressive-fascist creed.

[AllAmericanGirl44]

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