George Will: Regulation

[sjacquemotte]

A mandate that is off the rails

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...027_story.html

The cost of regulations ($1.806 trillion) is now more than half the size of the federal budget and 11.6 percent of GDP. This costs $14,768 per U.S. household, equal to 23 percent of the average household income of $63,685. Regulatory compliance costs exceed the combined sum of income taxes paid by corporations ($237 billion) and individuals ($1.165 trillion). Then add $61 billion in on-budget spending by agencies that administer regulations.

Crews’s “Anti-Democracy Index” measures “the ratio of regulations issued by agencies relative to laws passed by Congress.” In 2012, the index was 29, meaning that 29 times more regulations were issued by agencies than there were laws passed by Congress. “This disparity,” Crews writes, “highlights a substantial delegation of lawmaking power to unelected agency officials.”
Congress relishes such delegation of lawmaking because responsibility is time-consuming and potentially hazardous politically. Hence the Senate refuses to pass legislation the House passed in 2011 to require Congress to vote approval of any “major” regulation, defined as any with an economic impact of $100 million or more. If Congress were more clearly responsible for burdening the economy with such regulations, it would be less likely to pass them as sincerity gestures.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

I have one form of regulation George should consider: banking. And for all the wealth, let's not forget that the regulations effect industry and the corporation. For the most part, the normal consumer is not affected. Certainly not directly. Where does the rubber meet the road in terms of wealth disparity? I don't give a if Exxon, Apple, General Mills, Citicorp, American Steel, Glaxo-Welcom, et al have to pay a couple percent GDP, myself.

Also Will seems ignorant to the bureaucracy and the powers of the POTUS. The bureaucracy is the effective arm of the President. That is where there authority is administered to his Secretaries. For all of Will's complaints, the regulations passed in the bureaucracy are from the authority of the President. He has the right according to the Cons ution as well as tradition backed by the SCOTUS.

[boutons_deux]

the conservative "intellectual" George Will? Right up there with der Kraut Hammer

... quoting the libertarian stink tank Compe ive Enterprise Ins ute?

USA is NOT a democracy other than on Cons utional paper, and it certainly isn't a representative democracy (the Senate), but it's not because of the kleptocratic/plutocratic VRWC/1%'s/UCA hated govt regulations.

The 99%'s households and economy is not ed because of govt regulations. The 1% is ing the 99% because of govt not implementing the law and regulations, eg, capitalists stealing 4M homes and then penalized by $300/home.

[boutons_deux]

Why the Right Hates Government

The Right's ideological hatred of government originated in the founding era, when the South fought to justify and protect the ins ution of slavery.

something extreme has surfaced in modern American politics: an ideological hatred of government. From the Tea Party to libertarianism, there is a “principled” rejection – at least rhetorically – of almost everything that government does (outside of national security), and those views are no longer simply fringe. By and large, they have been embraced by the national Republican Party.

this right-wing revision of U.S. history is wildly askew if not upside-down. The framers of the U.S. Cons ution, and even many of their “anti-federalist” critics, were not hostile to an American government. They understood the difference between an English monarchy that denied them representation in Parliament and their own Republic.

the Tea Partiers are not entirely wrong when they insist that their hatred of “gubmint” has its roots in the founding era. There was an American tradition that involved resisting a strong and effective national government. It was not, however, anchored in the principles of “liberty,” but rather in the practice of slavery.

Amid this muck of muddled history, the biggest secret withheld from the American people is that today’s Right is actually promoting a set of anti-government positions that originally arose to justify and protect the South’s ins ution of slavery. The calls of “liberty” then covered the cries of suffering from human bondage, just as today’s shouts of outrage reflect resentment over the first African-American president.

The battle against the Cons ution and later against an energetic federal government — the sort of nation-building especially envisioned by Washington and Hamilton – emanated from the fears of many Southern plantation owners that eventually the national political system would move to outlaw slavery and thus negate their massive investment in human bondage. Their thinking was that the stronger the federal government became the more likely it would act to impose a national judgment against the South’s brutal ins ution of slavery. So, while the Southern argument was often couched in the rhetoric of liberty, i.e. the rights of states to set their own rules, the underlying point was the maintenance of slavery.

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-an...tter848915&t=7

And of course the big nasty Repug dog is wagged by the its Southern "Christian" Confederate tail and its bubba confederates in non-Southern red states.

[TeyshaBlue]

the conservative "intellectual" George Will? Right up there with der Kraut Hammer

... quoting the libertarian stink tank Compe ive Enterprise Ins ute?

USA is NOT a democracy other than on Cons utional paper, and it certainly isn't a representative democracy (the Senate), but it's not because of the kleptocratic/plutocratic VRWC/1%'s/UCA hated govt regulations.

The 99%'s households and economy is not ed because of govt regulations. The 1% is ing the 99% because of govt not implementing the law and regulations, eg, capitalists stealing 4M homes and then penalized by $300/home.

lol alternet.

[boutons_deux]

TB too cowardly to post a cogent resonse while stalking The Great Boutons

[TeyshaBlue]

lol alternet is a cogent response. Your mouth is too full of moonbat blog to understand it.

[TeyshaBlue]

And there is no Great Boutons.

[boutons_deux]

And there is no Great Boutons.

you wish

[TeyshaBlue]

I know

[FuzzyLumpkins]

So if I were to say, 'you two are more alike than you think,' would either of you be offended?

[TeyshaBlue]

So if I were to say, 'you two are more alike than you think,' would either of you be offended?

Not really. Why do you ask, WC?

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Not really. Why do you ask, WC?

Them's fighting words!!!!1!!!!!!!@#!!123!!!!

[baseline bum]

Not really. Why do you ask, WC?