Is This The Beginning Of The End Of The $2 Trillion Administrative State?

https://issuesinsights.com ^ | January 15, 2024 | I & I Editorial Board

[moovova]

So my dishwasher is safe? Juan will be happy to hear this.

[fruser1]

Don’t forget about those light bulbs and toilets.

[cymbeline]

“The $2 Trillion Administrative State”

This weekend’s Wall Street Journal has a bar chart of the job gains over the last year broken into various cateories:

Government: 650,000
Healthcare: 630,000
Leisure and Hospitality: 470,000
Construction: 200,000
Professional and business services: 150,000
Retail sales: 50,000
Financial activities: 40,000
Manufacturing: 20,000
Transportation and warehousing: -50,000
Information: -50,000

[Alas Babylon!]

” which not only told commercial fishing vessel owners that they had to take federal fish inspectors on board but also had to pay the inspectors’ costs.”

Moreover, they were required to pay them $710 per day. These are very small vessels, drag nets for herring, that usually have a crew of 4-6 people, including the captain. Many vessels are lucky to make $500-1000 daily (total haul), and a couple grand when the herring are running.

In essence, the Federal Marine Fisheries agency was forcing them out of business.

[HYPOCRACY]

Doesn’t say you have to bring the inspectors back to shore.

[qaz123]

Ha ha ha ha .... there’s always those accidents, are there?

[Organic Panic]

“Better make it 4 trillion...”