Choking on administrative regs and requirements?

Question

How about if we actually had due process in admin law? Like requiring the government to issue timely responses to filings, having a timely and meaningful appeal process, and reversing the burden on permit filings (asking for permit means you get it unless the government can show compelling reason why you shouldn't get it). For fed agencies, we should have immediate review in Federal Court and govt pays all legal fees if it loses in court. Same standard for states, but each state would have to do it severally.

I'm tired of asking permission for X, Y or Z (or, even more aptly, permission to extend the approval I already received for X, Y or Z) and having to wait until agency A or bureaucrat B feels like showing up to work to give me an answer. If they are overworked, it means we are overregulated, right?

What do you think?

PS-The Feds alone publish a 200-300 page book every business day that contains rules, regs, proposed rules & regs, and comments on proposed rules & regs. Add in the statutes and the state laws, rules, & regs, and even if you did nothing every business day but read this stuff, you still would not know what rules applied to everything you do.

Gaack!

Answer 1

You are right,we need to get rid of the IRS to start the reform.

Answer 2

Several ways to address this.

While cumbersome and time consuming to the extreme, many of these rules are in place, because someone in the past took advantage when the rule WASN'T there, to do something which was against the spirit of the original law.

Government must either grow or it shall wither away. There is no static position for government on any level. People in government justify their salaries AND existance by passing laws, rules and regulations. The problem is, many of the laws, rules and regulations have already addressed whatever issue is at hand.

It is time for a complete review of every State, County and Federal Law. Where Fed and State law conflict, State law is final word. Any laws in place which are archaic, unenforcable or either exclusionary or INclusionary are voided. If the laws for a particular field cannot be contained in one set of rules which anyone can read, understand and abide by without a lawyer's "interpretation", then those rules cannot be enforced.

Or alternatively, we could pass a law which says, at ALL levels, when a new law is passed (for example, in the US tax code), an old law has to be thrown out. Due to our overburdened lawbooks, I would even suggest for the first 10 years, every new law passed requires the abandonment of FIVE laws currently on the ooks (the laws abandoned have to be in the same spirit as the new law being passed; no fair passing a tax hike bill and getting rid of the Earned Income Credit to compensate, for example. If you want more taxes you have to give up another, older tax somewhere.)

Answer 3

Oh their is a reason to the madness. If you have been paying attention, just a few weeks ago the I.R.S. took ED Brown to court for not paying taxes. Ed asked for the IRS or any other government agency to show him a document anywhere stating paying taxes is the law.
Well they could not. There is no law Brown vs People. Brown won. Polls and things after showed most people would gladly not only pay taxes, but pay more. If they could see results where they wanted them like major improvement to schools, after school programs, clean up of polluted lakes and streams,universal health care, the end of endless war that America Provokes and starts, a break up of the monopoly cooperate America has on the airwaves. Granting back to the public at least one station witch are rightfully theirs,A more fair distribution of wealth.... All the things the government finds repulsive and ignores (except for the time on re election campaigns. Then they put it out of their minds. So they do know what people want. They just truly do not care. Same with due process, they don't believe in it(for themselves yes) the rest of us it is a pain in the **** to them so they complicate the whole process to discourage people. Only the most determined will finish the process....Mary

Answer 4

Overworked doesn't necessarily mean over-regulated; although, it can.

Overworked means several things:
1. The govt is not willing to spend enough in those areas that need more assistance.
2. There is some sort of breakdown in the requirements which is what you are really saying... that since the are these crazy, absurd permissions from x, y and then z it takes forever. They should be revision of these prerequisites.

Answer 5

Well I know this about government workers:
They are overburdened, underpaid, stressed to the limit and unappreciated.
Changing things would only cause more grief for them. They continually have to adjust to new bosses, new deals and new methods, new rules and learn more skills, burdened with additional duties and some of it without proper training. Believe me, it is more frustration for them than you.