Fear the Rise of the Bureaucratic State

Even without the news that the IRS deliberately targeted Americans based on an ideological criterion, American’s freedom and control over their personal lives have been under attack for decades.
The real threat to our nation is the rise of the Bureaucratic State and the blanket of soft tyranny it casts to gently smother Americans to death. A liberal law professor John Turley warns against the “fourth branch” of government.

The rise of the fourth branch has been at the expense of Congress’s lawmaking authority. In fact, the vast majority of “laws” governing the United States are not passed by Congress but are issued as regulations, crafted largely by thousands of unnamed, unreachable bureaucrats. One study found that in 2007, Congress enacted 138 public laws, while federal agencies finalized 2,926 rules, including 61 major regulations.
This rulemaking comes with little accountability. It’s often impossible to know, absent a major scandal, whom to blame for rules that are abusive or nonsensical.

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