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Thoughts on Regulations

For the purpose of this discussion, a regulation is a rule produced and enforced by a non-elected body.  For example the FDA is an unelected group of people and they produce rules and fines that are enforced by the power of the federal government.  The criminal code is not part of the regulations.

All regulations are bad.  All regulations need to be repealed. All unelected agencies need to be disbanded and their employees fired.  When President Trump talks about the swamp and the deep state he is talking about all the organizations in the executive branch with all their millions of regulations.

One reason, and perhaps the most important reason to do away with regulations is that they cost so much.  There have been studies which show that 1/2 of the cost of your food is paying for regulation.  So milk that is $4 would be $2 if there were no regulation.  Every regulation has an average cost increase of 2% over the base cost of an item.  Additionally, every regulation requires at least 2 employees, that is federal employees, to operate and enforce the regulation.

Some might say that we need milk regulations and that is a small price to make sure milk producers don’t poison everyone.  One question I have to ask is this:  why would milk producers poison people.  Milk producers make money from return customers.  They would do whatever they can to make sure the customers are healthy and happy and that milk is not harmful.  This goes for everything that is made in the world.  Sellers want happy customers who remain alive to come back and buy more.

What about lead in Chinese toys or dogfood from China?  Private watchdog groups like Consumer report can test for these things and people would pay for their reports.  We do not need the government to test things or do things for us.

The government can still enforce criminal law and do cancer research and work on vaccines against epidemics and things of this nature.  The government can still have a military and a police force.  Studies have shown, however that communities that hire their own police and pay for them out of their own pocket directly, have a much better police force and police experience.  The government should not be allowed to micro manage every area of my life, like they do now.

There is not a single government regulation that cannot be performed cheaper and better and more efficiently with a private organization.  Everything the government does is wasteful, expensive, corrupt and unaccounted for.  The government always does things poorly

We need to nuke all government regulations at all levels and if we decide as a country or a state or a city that we need a single regulation, we can vote on the cost and government workers and all of it, instead of regulations being decided in back rooms with no public vote.

Regulations bad, liberty good.

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