PolicyGuy

Wednesday, March 30, 2005


Legal: How About Fewer, Not More, Laws?
The Illinois Policy Institute notes that there are now at least 3,300 separate federal crimes on the books, along with 10,000 federal administrative regulations and other codes that regulate behavior.

Amazingly, 40 percent of these restrictions have come about in the last 30 years.

Abdul Hakim-Shabazz, a visiting fellow with the Institute, decries is "the elimination of the intent requirement," meaning that "many business people might find themselves behind bars simply for making a bad business decision and not harboring any ill will towards anyone."

"Justice Louis D. Brandeis'?s metaphor of the states as "laboratories" for policy experiments ... had almost nothing to do with federalism and everything to do with his commitment to scientific socialism. .... To this day, it continues to inhibit a truly experimental, federalist politics." -- Michael S. Greve

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