{"id":2988,"date":"2015-05-28T10:21:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T14:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=2988"},"modified":"2015-05-28T10:44:55","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T14:44:55","slug":"is-regulatory-reform-a-hopeless-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/is-regulatory-reform-a-hopeless-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Regulatory Reform a Hopeless Cause?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In short, no, although the reader of Charles Murray\u2019s new book might come away with that conclusion. In By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission<\/a> (Crown Forum, 2015), Murray paints a dispiriting picture of the modern American state. The U.S. Constitution established a limited federal government within a federal system. The 10th Amendment encapsulates their vision: \u201cThe powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.” Until the Progressive Era, the federal government remained small. A large standing army, a bugbear of the Founders, did not exist before the 20th century.<\/p>\n

Now, Murray laments, we have a \u201cleviathan\u201d that spends $3.4 trillion per year, and is huge beyond comprehension. Consider: \u201cAs of 2013, three undersecretaries reported to the Office of the Secretary of Energy. Combined, those three undersecretaries ran 29 separate offices\u2026 In addition, the heads of 15 other offices report directly to the Office of the Secretary. That\u2019s 44 entities.\u201d One senses that Murray\u2019s head nearly exploded when he clicked on one of the bureaus and found it had five divisions and 37 sub-offices….\u00a0(Read more at Brookings Institution’s FixGov<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In short, no, although the reader of Charles Murray\u2019s new book might come away with that conclusion. In By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission (Crown Forum, 2015), Murray paints a dispiriting picture of the modern American state. The U.S. Constitution established a limited federal government within a federal system. The 10th Amendment encapsulates their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[160,167,64],"tags":[168],"class_list":["post-2988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-regulation","category-public-and-governance","tag-brookings-institution"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-Mc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2990,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions\/2990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}