Is that all?
Freedom Caucus chair gives Trump 232 regulations to repeal.
If I was president, anything that was not a law passed by congress would be repealed. Every executive order and every regulation passed by non-elected bureaucrats. If you want something to be law, then pass a damn law. And if they actually pass the laws, they can be held accountable at the ballot box.
December 16th, 2016 at 4:48 pm
Regulations and EOs should be considered separately. Regulations are authorized by statute and follow an elaborate process to get enacted. In order to get rid of them you have to go through the process in reverse. Many less regulations would be needed if government did less stuff but for now we are stuck. Given the volume of stuff that it done, it would overwhelm both the time and competence of the congress critters. EOs on the other hand are a unilateral declaration by the President with little or no formal process or connection to statute. I would concentrate immediate repeal efforts here. Repeal of all EOs promulgated by Obama, Clinton and both Bushes would be a good start and nicely non-partisan. Some would have to be re-instituted to keep the wheels on but make the bureaucracy make the case. Possible answers would be yes, no, and pass a damn law.
December 19th, 2016 at 12:47 pm
Wanting zero regulations is stupid – Pelosi level industrial grade dumb. Getting rid of regulations would shift power to lawyers and judges, not to the people.
First, having Congress jam all the language from regulations into actual law isn’t a good thing. Right now, if you were rich enough, you’d be able to fight against an illegal regulation. Making regulations law just makes it harder and more expensive. Proving that a law is unconstitutional is much higher legal burden than proving that a regulation exceeds what the law allows.
Second, did you mean that you want less federal regulations and federal laws. Equally stupid. Some libertarians would be happy if the federal government wrote suggestions, and then the state legislatures passed those suggestions wholesale into law & regulation, rather than having the exact same language being federal law and federal regulation.
Third, laws aren’t magically going to be better, if you get rid of regulations. Regulations help fix bad lazy laws. For example – if you come home from work and find that the power company has broken into your home, stolen all your stuff, and sold it at auction already, you would be upset. The law allows utilities to do just that – claim new right-of-way, condemn property, and dispose of that property. Regulations are what stop your utility company from robbing you.