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General Category => Political Discussion and Debate => Topic started by: quiller on May 03, 2015, 07:49:32 AM

Title: Sen. Mike Lee's photo of the year: federal regulations
Post by: quiller on May 03, 2015, 07:49:32 AM
Sen. Mike Lee's page at Facebook last January offered this comparison of the laws actually passed by Congress (on top of the storage case) and the 80,000+ pages of new regulations issued by unelected bureaucrats.

(https://scontent-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/1530434_684070008291362_2028440787_n.jpg?oh=0d822e498572374bd7911b6b6324c453&oe=55D7A1C5)

That's roughly 2,500 pages per vertical foot.
Title: Re: Sen. Mike Lee's photo of the year: federal regulations
Post by: Darth Fife on May 03, 2015, 08:16:00 AM
"No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy."

-Aldous Huxley
Title: Re: Sen. Mike Lee's photo of the year: federal regulations
Post by: mdgiles on May 03, 2015, 11:48:28 AM
Why are you surprised? Bureaucracies justify their existence by rule making. The more complex and incomprehensible the rules, the more you need them to interpret them.
Title: Re: Sen. Mike Lee's photo of the year: federal regulations
Post by: taxed on May 03, 2015, 09:34:47 PM
Holy crap!!!
Title: Re: Sen. Mike Lee's photo of the year: federal regulations
Post by: walkstall on May 03, 2015, 09:48:07 PM
Quote from: taxed on May 03, 2015, 09:34:47 PM
Holy crap!!!

I think Noah may have been the first one to say that.   :lol:
Title: Re: Sen. Mike Lee's photo of the year: federal regulations
Post by: daidalos on May 05, 2015, 08:38:41 AM
Quote from: quiller on May 03, 2015, 07:49:32 AM
Sen. Mike Lee's page at Facebook last January offered this comparison of the laws actually passed by Congress (on top of the storage case) and the 80,000+ pages of new regulations issued by unelected bureaucrats.

(https://scontent-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/1530434_684070008291362_2028440787_n.jpg?oh=0d822e498572374bd7911b6b6324c453&oe=55D7A1C5)

That's roughly 2,500 pages per vertical foot.
The key being "unelected", because those "regulations" are in effect "laws" which the citizen must comply with or else...