“If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.” The highly respected British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was the originator of this statement; yet it appears that the government of the most powerful nation on earth, the United States, long ago disavowed the idea behind this. The United States government has committed itself almost single-mindedly to the overbearing regulation of everything from advice columns to magicians’ rabbits, as John Stossel’s television special War on the Little Guy shows.
Jeff Rowes of the Institute of Justice, in an interview with Stossel during War on the Little Guy, says that “America was conceived as a sea of liberty, with islands of government power. We are now a sea of government power with ever-shrinking islands of liberty.” This vast sea of unyielding government power will, if not subsided, one day devour these islands.
One tide unto the shore of liberty is the mandate known as the “Energy Conservation Standards for Residential Dishwashers”, issued by the Department of Energy in August of 2012. The new standards require decreased water and energy usage in all future residential dishwashers. The Department seems to have rather admirable intentions for these …show more content…
There was never an op-ed in the Washington Post or the New York Times that complained of the terrible lack of energy efficiency in the nation’s dishwashers. There were never any protests calling for government action. But the government still decided to issue this rule. The dishwashers that the regulation requires (in a 174-page mandate) use less water- and are, as a result, far slower. In addition, the regulations pushed up the price, making them more expensive than better, older dishwashers. Finally, the effect that dishwashers have on overall American energy and water usage is negligible and extremely minor. This policy seems to have no positive effects. So why did the government pursue
Jeff Rowes of the Institute of Justice, in an interview with Stossel during War on the Little Guy, says that “America was conceived as a sea of liberty, with islands of government power. We are now a sea of government power with ever-shrinking islands of liberty.” This vast sea of unyielding government power will, if not subsided, one day devour these islands.
One tide unto the shore of liberty is the mandate known as the “Energy Conservation Standards for Residential Dishwashers”, issued by the Department of Energy in August of 2012. The new standards require decreased water and energy usage in all future residential dishwashers. The Department seems to have rather admirable intentions for these …show more content…
There was never an op-ed in the Washington Post or the New York Times that complained of the terrible lack of energy efficiency in the nation’s dishwashers. There were never any protests calling for government action. But the government still decided to issue this rule. The dishwashers that the regulation requires (in a 174-page mandate) use less water- and are, as a result, far slower. In addition, the regulations pushed up the price, making them more expensive than better, older dishwashers. Finally, the effect that dishwashers have on overall American energy and water usage is negligible and extremely minor. This policy seems to have no positive effects. So why did the government pursue