Posted on 11/14/2016 2:44:42 AM PST by expat_panama
Economy: When running for office, Donald Trump promised to reduce the regulatory burden on the economy. But before he gets a chance to do so, President Obama will likely add to those burdens with a last-minute regulatory rush.
In a memo to her staff, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said that "we're running — not walking — through the finish line of President Obama's presidency."
The memo is indicative of what's come to be called "midnight regulations." These are rules an administration rushes out the door just before leaving. The number of rules increased in President Clinton's last year, and in President Bush's.
But given that Obama has been an aggressive regulator to begin with...
...Through the first 10 months of this year, Obama regulators have approved 122 "economically significant" regulations, according to a report from the American Action Forum. "Economically significant" is a polite way of saying that these rules will cost a lot of money to comply with...
...Earlier this year, House Republicans produced a detailed plan to rein in the regulatory state through a variety of reforms, such as sunset requirements, a "regulatory accountability act" that would require a better accounting of a regulation's economic impact, and others.
The bottom line is that if Trump and the GOP really want to make inroads on regulatory costs, they will have to be far more aggressive about getting rid of costly rules than regulators have been in putting them in place.
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Come on. Obeee is playing golf every day. That’s the radicals way.
Guess what, lefties. President Trump has a pen and a phone.
As he is a covert American hating Muslim loving ass O’ he will do his best. Although, he must know that whatever he does will mostly be reversed by Trump. So, it will be mostly symbolic except it incite more rioting?
As he is a covert American hating Muslim loving ass O’ he will do his best. Although, he must know that whatever he does will mostly be reversed by Trump. So, it will be mostly symbolic except it incite more rioting?
Do an internet search for “Trump rescind Obama executive orders”
” . .be handing out to these EPA Nazis on his leaving”
True and he should save some ink for the IRS Nazis also,
Trump needs to revoke every lawless decree that demonic Obama creature signed and then fire everyone in the courts and the state department that he can,
We now know the Bush spawn didn’t do this because he approved of those same NWO Globalist Clinton appointees, both Clinton and that Sunni Marxist Muslim Brotherhood tool cleaned house to install their own reprobate minions, with not a word from the MSM,
Wait for the wailing and gnashing of teeth,
All the President-Elect needs to do is issue a massive PR release saying “Ignore these orders. There will be accountability on January 21.”
Regulations are insidious monsters hiding in the tall grass of books so thick and dry nobody reads them. I read that a congressional committee asked the Justice Department for a list of regulations, not laws, regulations that required a prison sentence. The DOJ responded that there was no list. There were hundreds of thousands of regulations at all levels of government that required jail sentences. There was no practical way to list them all.
I started researching this issue when a friend got a criminal arrest citation for burning trash. The fine, which he couldn’t pay, cost him, in this order, his driver’s license, his job and his marriage. All for burning trash.
I went searching for the DOJ article and couldn’t find it. However, I found this. Note the one on jail terms for violating auto sales regulations.
The criminal penalties, remember, the burning trash episode was a regulation, not a law, are so they can force you to pay the fines. It’s leverage. If you pay the fine, they offer to erase the criminal penalties. (If you have a criminal record it’s hard to get a job.) In the end, this is all about extracting money.
A building code inspector told a developer I know, “Yeah, I’m sorry about this, but we’re self funded. (The boss) told us to go write fines or get fired.”
That sounds like a good idea, but it ends up forcing Congress to micromanage things that are outside its capabilities.
I run into the same issues on the USDOT/Federal Highway Administration side. Right now I'm working for a client who is trying to meet some specific provisions of the last Federal transportation bill, and over the course of the last six months I must have said the following at least two dozen times:
"Congress should have hired me to help them draft a better bill."
Look at something like standard colors and lettering styles for signs on the Interstate Highway System. Those aren't mandated by Congress. They are established by the U.S. Department of Transportation under authority that is given to them by Congress -- presumably because the USDOT is filled with professionals who know why certain colors and lettering schemes work better than others.
I don't have a problem with the Executive Branch making regulations like this when it is better suited to do it than Congress is. I just think these regulations should have "sunset" provisions that force Congress to re-authorize these departments to make these rules every five years or so.
“Will Obama Unleash A Regulatory Tsunami On His Way Out?”
Does the Sun set in the West?
p.s. - dupage went blue....
Probably. But what Obama regulates at the stroke of a pen Trump can de-regulate just as easily.
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