Sunset Laws
I read this yesterday in the Rolling Stone and it FREAKED me out.
Basically the republicans want to make a committee to evaluate government agencies on a cost benefit analysis, then they'll get rid of the 'deadwood'.
Gee I wonder how much the FDA makes? And how fast they'd lose their funding if this was enacted.
The ATF could also lose much of it's funding as I'm sure that each one of their initials lobbyists would love LESS restrictions.
Likewise W. has already cut much of the budget for the EPA. Read here for some of the fun stuff W. has already done with SCIENCE. I was especially impressed on page 2 with the 9 month suppression of a report about Mercury poisoning because... well the poisoner was Haliburton.
The invisible hand doesn't work. We the little people need to be protected from BIG evil corporations.
Heck- the IRS which should be one of the best managed agencies( after the FBI and CIA), is one of the more understaffed. I've read on several occasions that they don't have the manpower to go after the BIG fish that owe them money... because those big fish are friends of the president. So the IRS does a 1/2 ass job and is more likely to go after people who owe the government a bit of money then really discuss with congress ways to close tax loopholes and do it's job of getting funds from people and corporations to help the rest of the US government run smoothly.
I don't trust the republicans with ANYTHING these days. Which means I'm against them forming a committee with people from Haliburton to decide what government agencies need to be cut.
posted by Drew at 1:43 PM
1 Comments:
Sunset Laws are nothing new and its not the republicans that created this "evil thing to get rid of whatever is in their way". It is a way of getting rid of laws that are now useless because of changes in times and technology. And by assessing different agencies, its talking about temporary agencies that were created for temporary use that never went away. You see, there are two approaches the government uses to put money into the economy to get it growing; One way (the republicans way) is to give tax cuts. While these tax cuts are nice, they take awhile to go into effect because you have to wait a year to get your refund. But actually, 'Ol G.W. that you hate so much did a good thing with this. He gave the tax cut, instead of making you wait til you got your refund, he gave you the money first. So when you get more money from your tax cut, consumption spending goes up because people have more money, which increases our nations GDP. Democrats, on the other hand, like to implement government programs to help out our economy. These programs are quicker in putting money into our economy because it increases our governemnt spending right away, which also increases our nations GDP. The problem with this, though, is that after they put in the programs (usually as a temporary thing to stimulate the economy), the government forgets to take them out. And after awhile, their cost out weigh their benefit. So, we have sunshine laws to assess if the organization is one of those that the government forgot to take out.
And back to the corporation thing, Corporations are what made america what it is. They all started out small and private, but by being the best and most efficient, they have risen to the top. And the invisible hand does work. You just have to get better to keep up. Laziness will get you nowhere.
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