[Twotone]

Terrific post, Bray! I think forcing the federal gov’t to release land back to the states will be the first step in reducing the federal leviathan. If the lands are released there are multiple agencies that could be eliminated - Forest Service, Bureau of Mines, etc...

[bray]

Thanks Twotone. Great meeting you last weekend!
It is absurd we would use 1929 thinking in the year 21st century. Central planning has failed everywhere it has been tried.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

forcing the federal gov’t to release land back to the states...

The states should just get together and tell the fedgov; "We're taking it back. Get off our property."

[Alas Babylon!]

I think another point is how Congress writes ambiguous laws that can be richly interpreted by judges to include all kinds of bureaucratic hurdles, loops, barrels and other hindrances we all are required to then jump through.

This allows well-funded (by Wahhabi oil sheiks, communists, socialists and assorted enemies of America) environmental groups to shop for liberal judges who will shape a Congressionally plastic law into something far more onerous than conceived of when passed.