| 23dec17 | Time to Get Them Off Our Gravy Train
Sue and Settle Reward Pressure Groups – Hurt the Rest of America
Greg Walcher
EPA
Administrator Scott Pruitt recently issued a directive to end a 20-year
string of “sue and settle” cases that have funneled untold millions of
tax dollars to environmental organizations. Predictably, those groups
and their allies have been apoplectic about it. Many of these groups
have grown from grassroots citizen movements to gigantic cash-flush
conglomerates, with much of the cash coming from the government they
appear or pretend to be fighting. | |
| 7apr16 | Washington's Despotic Lawlessness – No One Even Knows How Many Executive Branch Agencies There Are
Paul Driessen
Officially
executive branch agencies issued a staggering 3,554 new rules in 2014,
while President Obama signed “only” 226 new laws enacted by Congress.
Worse, of the 53,838 formal final regulations included in the Federal
Register from 2001 through 2014, only 160 (0.3%) received a
“cost-benefit” analysis; we have no idea how the rest affect us. | |
| 25feb11 |
Put the REINS on EPA
Marlo Lewis
Americans live under a regime of regulation without representation. In
the modern regulatory state, elected officials enact broad regulatory
statutes... However, Congress and the president then delegate to
non-elected officials the tasks not only of developing and proposing
but also of enacting the implementing rules. |
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| 3aug02 |
Too
Many Precautions Will Kill You
Alan Caruba
The Precautionary Principle is the exact
opposite of science which requires evidence, clear links and probable
cause, and then measures levels of actual or potential risk. |
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| 9aug01 |
The Real Cost of Regulation
John
Stossel Investigative Reporter, ABC News
"One thing I noticed that started me toward
seeing the folly of regulation was that it didn't even punish the
obvious crooks. The people selling the breast-enlargers and the
burn-fat-while-you-sleep pills got away with it." |
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| 20jul01 |
Broken Promise Land Revisted
Diane Alden
At the rate our government and certain special
interests are going, those who might someday want to build, own or live
on the land will not be able to do so. The reason is that land will
have been legislated, set aside and regulated out of existence. |
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| 16jun01 |
Ten
Thousand Commandments
Wayne Crews
Congress should be held directly accountable for
the compliance costs—as well as the benefits—that federal regulations
confer. |
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| 22may01 |
Washington's
10,000 Commandments
A new study shows
that Washington's burgeoning regulations cost American taxpayers, on
average, $7,410 in the year 2000. This amounts to 20% of an average
family's after-tax budget. |
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| 2apr01 |
The Bonds of Life
Virginia
Postrel
Society depends on rules. But what sort of rules
enliven our world — and what sort stifle it? Most of our public debate
over rules is about making such detailed prescriptions into mandatory,
no-exception laws. |
|
| 15mar01 |
Scholar Helps Snuff Out Smoking
Ban
Nosy, intrusive
government has polarized the dispute between smokers and nonsmokers. As
a result, venom has replaced respect and obstinate
behavior has replaced common courtesy. It is government, not secondhand
smoke, that has poisoned the atmosphere. |
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| 7jan01 |
The
Tyranny of Flexible Rules
And Reasonable Regulators
Gene
Callahan
Some people want to remedy the current
bureaucratic tangle in which America is ensnared by giving regulators
more discretion. Callahan says that's exactly the wrong idea. |
|
| 12nov00 |
A Chance to Really Clear the Air
Vin
Suprynowicz
How are citizens supposed to understand and obey
laws so numerous, intricate, costly, and incomprehensible that our
delegates themselves cringe at the thought of merely being required to read
them? |
|
| 16jun00 |
Clinton's
Regulatory Miasma
"All told, in 1999,
every American family paid about $7,400 a year for the privilege of
being watched, controlled, prodded, nannied and governed." Thanks to
Clinton, that number could increase this year. |
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| 24may00 |
Delegation and the Constitution
Gary Lawson
The concept that all legislative powers are
vested in the Congress and how this has been subverted by the present
regulatory regime.[Acrobat pdf file] |
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| 24may00 |
Testimony: The Role Of Congress
In Monitoring Administrative Rulemaking |
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Needed
Reform of "Federal" Corporations
What those
leftists did not have in mind, however, were what might be called
"federal corporations" such as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting,
their favorite left-wing mouthpiece |
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Standard
Accommodations:
The road to universal
disability |
|
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Pencil
Manufacturers Sued
For the past thirty years America's public
schools have been producing students who are increasingly less educated. |
|
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The
Decade of 'Junk Science'
"The 1990s will be
remembered for many things. None may be more important to the United
States than the "Decade of Junk Science." |
|
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The
FHA Loan
An actual case |
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Focus on
Canadian toilets
Canada has become a major supplier of illegal
3.5-gallon toilets. These toilets were banned by Congress in 1992 under
the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, which decreed that henceforth
U.S. citizens had to buy 1.6-gallon toilets. |
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Product
Warning Labels
In case you needed further
proof that the human race is doomed through bureaucratic stupidity. |
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Killer
Regulations
The NHTSA spin on cars and
trucks parallels the mentality of the Clinton administration: Whether
it is profits, market share or vehicle platforms, Big is Bad. (Except
in the case of government and taxes, unfortunately.) |
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Flush
With The Right To Sit Down In Peace
"The
only people who like this new regulation are Al's environmental freaks,
who long ago got used to smelling bad, and discovered they liked it." |
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