People are fed up with the administrative state, which contributes nothing to productive business except obstacles. From James T. Moodey at lewrockwell.com:
Thank you to the Supreme Court for overturning Chevron deference which allowed our administrative state to determine laws, a job that should rest with the courts or Congress. However, the decision is about thirty years too late. We lost most of our manufacturing to China, because of Chevron deference. This is how that happened:
California formed our nation’s first clean-air district in the Los Angeles basin, the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD). Smog is created by cars, trucks, and planes which are regulated by the Federal Clean Air Act and the California Air Resources Board (CARB). The new district had no jurisdiction over smog.
Our significant progress in reducing smog is not the result of CARB’s taxes and regulations and not from anything the SCAQMD has done. The progress is almost entirely due to the catalytic converter which was the invention of an oil company engineer.
SCAQMD with hundreds of employees had to vilify something other than smog to justify their existence and funding. Their successful ruse was to vilify the trace molecules of nitrogen in natural gas, which are harmless, but the public did not generally know that. At the time, the district admitted publicly that carbon dioxide is harmless.
