Explosion of rules is government run amok

In Mark Levin's book "Rediscovering Americanism," he cites the following: "The Congressional Research Service recently reported that according to the Office of the Federal Registrar, "the number of final rules published each year [by the executive branch] is generally in the range of 2,500-4,500." The Competitive Enterprise Institute determined that by Dec. 30, 2016, in a record-setting Federal Register of 97,110 pages, agencies had issued 3,853 rules and regulations, 43 more than 2015 and eighteen times the number of laws Congress passed during the year."

From the table Mark Levin provided, during the last 13 years, a whopping 51,894 final rules were published by the executive branch vs. 2,624 Public Laws passed by Congress. No wonder people say, show me the man and I'll show you the crime. This is tyrannical. We are over criminalizing everything. And with the Mueller investigation that is virtually unlimited in scope, they will find a crime of some sort, whether it involves the Russians or not.

You say I shouldn't be so concerned? Nah, we needn't be concerned - until the government comes for us.

John Zitkus

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