{"id":28207,"date":"2016-05-06T11:50:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T15:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28207"},"modified":"2016-05-06T11:50:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T15:50:24","slug":"who-is-making-our-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28207","title":{"rendered":"Who Is Making Our Laws?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have reached the point in our representative republic where the people making the laws<\/a> are not the people the voters elect and not the people the voters can hold accountable<\/a>. A very large percentage of our laws are in the form of regulations that come from un-elected bureaucrats<\/a> who cannot be held accountable by the voters. Yesterday the Conservative Tribune<\/a> posted an article about the cost of these regulations.<\/p>\n

The article includes the following graphs:<\/p>\n

\"Hidden<\/a>\"HiddenGovernmentTax2\"<\/a>The article reports:<\/p>\n

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Most troubling is the the nature of our regulatory system<\/a>. They are designed by rogue and unelected bureaucrats. Regulations effectively become laws with little oversight or accountability.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t a small problem. Take for example your elected representatives<\/a> in Congress<\/a>. In 2015, CEI<\/a> finds that Congress enacted 114 laws (that\u2019s probably too many). However, unelected bureaucrats issued 3,410 rules in that same year. In other words, the \u201cfourth\u201d<\/em> branch of government that is unaccountable issued 30 regulatory decrees for every one law passed by Congress. That\u2019s simply insane.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

In total, there are 178,277 pages in the Code of Federal Regulations<\/a> which outline the 94,000 rules currently on the books. The cost to enforce all these regulations comes at a massive price. CEI finds that federal agencies spent $63 billion in taxpayer dollars to administer and police this regulatory enterprise.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As bad as this seems, it\u2019s about to get worse. There are currently 3,297 new regulations in the implementation phase. Of this total, CEI finds that 218 are considered \u201ceconomically significant,\u201d a definition the government uses when a regulation will have an economic impact of $100 million or more.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The hidden regulatory tax is becoming dangerous to American<\/a> democracy. The regulatory apparatus is out of control. Over the past 23 years, the number of regulations has increased by 2,060 percent. Individuals that are not elected, or confirmed by elected representatives, should not have such great authority and power over our lives.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please follow the link to read the entire article. It is eye-opening.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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