Category: Common Sense View of Excessive Regulation
Regulators creating government without legislation
Government Regulations are really Government Control
Regulation Codifies Winners and Losers; Resulting in Disagreement and Legal Challenges
Court Systems Expand to meet the increased demand for legal challenges
Government Controls Personal Decision Making and Morality
Capitalism and free market economies are not perfect.
But historically, free markets have provided more individual, social, and economic advancement and individual freedom than collective, progressive and socialistic approaches “guaranteeing” economic equality.
The ever expanding regulatory environment is planting the seeds for class warfare by restricting free development of opportunities in business and commerce and new jobs and expanded employment.
F.C.C. Approves Net Neutrality Rules, Classifying Broadband Internet Service as a Utility
– https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/technology/net-neutrality-fcc-vote-internet-utility.html
The FCC Just Killed Net Neutrality. Now What?
– https://www.wired.com/story/after-fcc-vote-net-neutrality-fight-moves-to-courts-congress/
This is another good example of non-elected technocrats and political appointees creating rules that impact all of us.
“In fact, as planning becomes more and more extensive, it becomes regularly necessary to qualify legal provisions increasingly by reference to what is ‘fair’ or ‘reasonable’; this means that it becomes necessary to leave the decision of the concrete case more and more to the discretion of the judge or authority in question.”
– Hayek, F.A., The Road To Serfdom
The Department of Commerce promotes job creation and economic growth by ensuring fair and secure trade, providing the data necessary to support commerce, and fostering innovation by setting standards and conducting foundational research and development. Through its 12 bureaus and 42,335 employees located in all 50 states and more than 86 countries. Current tax payer cost of = $9.5 billion each year! [http://www.osec.doc.gov/bmi/budget/FY18BIB/All508.pdf]
Who knows better what products to create, who to sell to, and who the competition is, than the company itself? The Government? Really?
“…In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government…”
– The Federalist No. 51. James Madison, 1788.
Unfortunately, since 1960, about 50% of registered voters are not even voting! You Get what you don’t vote for.