Trump has made noises about reining in the regulatory state. That’s absolutely essential to making America great again; he’d better follow through. From Eric Peters on a guest post at theburningplatform.com:
Borrowing – bowdlerizing – a line from Shakespeare: First thing we do, let’s kill all the regulators.
Well, maybe not kill them.
Firing them would be enough.
Or even just threatening them with being fired.
Like on Trump’s Apprentice reality show – except for real. Because now it’s President Trump – or soon will be. And if The Donald, as he likes to style himself, intends to make America great again, the best way to do that is to put Americans back to work again. And the best way to put them back to work is to get the regulatory apparat off their backs.
It is hard to do anything in this country anymore except pay taxes – which fund the regulatory apparat.
Henry Ford would likely never have made his Model T – or any of the preceding models – if he’d had to deal with the DOT and EPA. Let alone OSHA. Most people have no idea that it is necessary to destroy a dozen or more cars in crash tests to establish compliance with federal side-impact, offset barrier and roof crush mandatory minimums before one may legally sell a single car. This alone amounts to hundreds of thousand of dollars in costs. A huge corporation can afford this (and can write it off, too).
A latter-day Henry Ford just starting out can’t.
Which is why there aren’t any latter-day Henry Fords. Or at least, none whose names we know. Their efforts – if they haven’t give up – are confined to tinkering that never goes beyond their own garages.
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Tried firing a civil servant lately? Can’t be done for cause let alone any other reason. You’d have to eliminate the entire agency and give them all early retirement.