I've said it for years, regulation is strangling our economy and our lives. It's obvious to me and I don't even study the numbers of new regulations created every year. Regulation is nothing more than a law enacted by a bureaucrat who does not hold an elected office. Now the constitution is pretty clear about Congress and its ability to make laws, but bureaucratic regulations - not so much because there is NO support in the constitution for bureaucrats to make laws or anything that behaves like a law. Changing the name doesn't make it legal.
Based on this article Over at WUWT (What's Up With That?):
Now this heavy handed approach to rule by regulation pretty much started with one of our early attempts at Socialism in 1933 - Roosevelt's New Deal. That's when congress started to really abdicate their responsibility, and to violate their oaths to "Support and Defend the Constitution of the United States of America". They did that by delegating law-making powers to agencies of the executive branch. Then they doubled down with the passage of the 1946 Administrative Procedures Act.
Not until recently, has the Executive Order been used as a tool to bypass Congress. The first of what we consider executive orders was issued by George Washington and was at the time called either a letter or memorandum. Obama is using them to create Law, where congress won't give him the law he wants.
As long as this continues - we will NEVER fix anything.
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