You Mean Like These!?!!?
Short Sweet and to the Point?
No, 8,000 Page Regulations for the Bill of Rights.
“I’m a supporter of the free market economy except I favor strong government regulations. “
Depends, are you in favor of a few regulations that are strongly enforced? Or in favor of Many Regulations that selectively enforced? Or in favor of many regulations that are all strongly enforced?
Because most of the people here on free republic would be in favor of a very small number of common sense regulations that are Heavily and EQUALLY enforced.
The problem is when you have so many regulations that no one EXCEPT a “Supposedly Evil big Business” can hire enough people in offices to ensure compliance of such regulations.. This squeezes the small and mid sized businesses in favor of the “Big Businesses” that liberals love to write regulations for, which doesn’t actually solve the “intial” problem but makes it worse.
It is Problem —> Solution —> More damn problems.
One can have Limited Government and “Strong Regulations” but the NUMBER of regulations has to be SMALL in Number by definition and CLEARLY defined with no damned WEASEL words in them... The Federal Register (all the federal laws and regulations) in Totality should be readable in a weekend by the average CITIZEN.
Too many people confuse “Strong Regulation” with a “Multitude of Regulation”, the Multitude of Regulations creates an environement where companies like GE (Obama’s favorite big business) can get away with virtual business murder while mom and pop’s farmers market gets shut down because it is a mile too close to a state border....
Of course if you have a Many Regulations that are all strongly controlled you have complete despotism, which is even worse than the system we have now which is many laws selectively enforced, but hey at least everyone is miserable like in a commie country.
In order to hit that “Happy Balance” I would say End most if not ALL FEDERAL regulations and move that responsibility BACK to the states, let the 50 independednt labratories find a happy medium..
The federal government has just a few well defined duties. One of those is to protect the border and soverignty of the United States. If they spent less time screwing around with the naturual flow of the market maybe they could patrol the damn border (sea and land) like they are supposed to be doing. Along with other duties that are constutitionally defined.
You Mean Like These!?!!?
Short Sweet and to the Point?
No, 8,000 Page Regulations for the Bill of Rights.
Exhibit A: The Board of Education
Let States or even Counties fork out the money for the schools without federal interference. You put the Local Municipalities in the Education Game and it WILL improve, no more passing the buck to the federal government.