Empowering unelected lawmakers is not the only problem. Not having to answer to voters, bureaucrats can spend freely.
Lee observed that to comply with the hundreds-of-thousands of pages of regulations in existence, it costs the American economy $2 trillion a year.
That’s another reason why, Stockman told WND, “We should sunset all administrative law.”
He was referring to “sunset” laws that would automatically terminate regulations by a certain date unless they were renewed.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has proposed an even more sweeping solution.
As WND reported in August, during a speech detailing how to “Make America Great Again,” Trump proposed drastic reductions in regulations, along with tax cuts, to revive the economy.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump
Trump said he would cut regulations “massively.” He also called for a temporary moratorium on new federal regulations. The candidate shared the belief of many conservatives that the enormous number of existing regulations are a crushing burden on small businesses and have stunted the country’s economic growth.
Trump vowed to “ask each and every federal agency to prepare a list of all of the regulations they impose on Americans which are not necessary, do not improve public safety, and which needlessly kill jobs. Those regulations will be eliminated.”
He also called for the removal of bureaucrats and their replacement by “experts who know how to create jobs.”
Stockman told WND that a suggestion in the Post article to put term limits on bureaucrats and Capitol Hill staffers was “brilliant and long overdue.”
The former congressman summed up what he saw as the bottom line.
“The bureaucrats have always thought, and always will think, that the public are idiots.”