Bacon's Rebellion

Bureaucrats Are Not Running Amok

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Dick Hall-Sizemore
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7 responses to “Bureaucrats Are Not Running Amok”

  1. how_it_works Avatar
    how_it_works

    Yea, like the law requires localities to complete a CAFR and Manassas Park never did for one year.

    1. Nancy Naive Avatar
      Nancy Naive

      BTW, as part of the bureaucracy, CAFRs are now called ACFRs.

  2. Stephen Haner Avatar
    Stephen Haner

    Regulations as a rule do not appear out of thin air. The Assembly orders them, some federal law requires them, or some special interest group seeks their creation by a citizen board (usually to screw their competitors or limit access to a lucrative profession.). I was long familiar with both items you cite, Dick, and have seen the legislative review used to block proposed regs. Sen. Wagner was an activist chairman of a commission on that topic for a while. A Governor promising to review and reduce “red tape” is SOP. Probably something Patrick Henry talked about. Let’s see if anything happens, because it is easier said than done.

    1. Nancy Naive Avatar
      Nancy Naive

      Hey! How was SA? Did you get out west or north of the city? BTW, if you’re able to handle hills, north of SA about an hour is Natural Caverns. Discovered after federal laws on cave preservation, they’re almost pristine. Little bit of up and down in high humidity, gets a bit sweaty, but well worth it.

  3. DJRippert Avatar
    DJRippert

    Hmmm … pretty thin. Seems to me that, at least at the federal level, a lot of legislation is interpreted, re-interpreted and then re-re-interpreted by regulatory bodies rather than the legislature.

    The Waters of the US controversy comes to mind.

    https://www.cnn.com/2015/05/27/politics/obama-epa-water-rule/index.html

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/10/politics/epa-wotus/index.html

    https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/we-have-a-new-epa-definition-of-waters-9974388/

    1. Nancy Naive Avatar
      Nancy Naive

      Eventually, the courts figure it all out.

  4. William O'Keefe Avatar
    William O'Keefe

    It’s easier to pass the buck to the bureaucrats so there is someone other than a delegate or senator to blame. Youngkin could do one of the few things that Trump got right. Require the rescinding of two or three existing regs for each new one.

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