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.
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That's roughly 2,500 pages per vertical foot.
"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
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.
Holy crap!!!
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:
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...