That is indeed death by 1 million paper cuts.
Rate of growth in the graph is mind boggling.
Just think...each new regulation is one more chip off the block of freedom.
It’s clear to say that looking at the graph and rate of growth, Obama or not, we are headed to political slavery no matter what we do.
“Making law” is a spectator sport in government circles. It’s how young upstarts fresh out of law school put feathers in their caps. No regard as to who it affects or what the unforseen circumstances may be. Just something to pad the ol’ resume. The lawyers and their co-conspirators in government have this country by the short and curlies.
Ya know, a Tea Party Congress just might be able to do something about that....
OUTSTANDING post! Thanks. HOORAY George Mason University!
Regulations - tools for totalitarians...the leviathan.
BIG GOVERNMENT IS CRONY SOCIALISM
https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies
Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850
DEPOPULATE socialists from the body politic.
DISMANTLE their UNaccountable bureaucracies.
DEFUND their collectives, foreign and domestic.
live - free - republic
DEFUNDING PBS/Big Bird was a good start. /sarcasm
Not only have the regulations become easier for government to multiply but the bar for imposing felony status has been gradually lowered. For example, it is a felony for a tire monkey to not properly re-install the tire pressure transmitter in the wheel when changing a tire. It is a felony, at least measured by the maximum published penalty, to disconnect your air bag without obtaining official permission from the DOT. And of course, as with any interaction with a federal employee, it is a violation of 18 USC 1001 to lie in any statement. (but strangely, it is not a felony for a federal employee to lie to a citizen)
14 pages of instructions: http://www.safercar.gov/staticfiles/safercar/pdf/811264.pdf
2 page form to request permission:
http://www.safercar.gov/staticfiles/safercar/pdf/onoffswitch.pdf
FYI ping
srbfl