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The default rule is minimal government intervention, maximum State jurisdiction, and maximum individual freedom.
We don't have a federal Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) because it would duplicate the States's DMVs. Each state has the infrastructure, manpower, and budget to run its own DMVs. Each state is positioned to run agencies according to its needs and wants. For example, Florida would have more boat registrations than, say, South Dakota. New York does not issue as many motorcycle licenses as other states. And so on. There is no need for a federal office to regulate vehicle registration and driver licensing.
We all foresee what would happen if the U.S. federal administrative state set up a DMV. It would require unnecessary additional testing, additional fees, require emissions inspections, safety inspections, and make it a general hell for Americans to register their cars and drive them. By comparison, look at Northern Virginia (Loudon, Fairfax, Alexandria) and personal property taxes and emissions inspections, which add on average in my household $3,000-$4,000 per year just to own cars. A federal DMV would mirror that and be worse.
Now extend this to the Environmental Protection Agency. Who is in the best position to protect Florida's wetlands? Naturally, it is the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Who is in the best position to regulate energy in Texas? It is of course the Texas State Energy Conservation Office. And finally, as an example, why would we need a federal department to standardize education and implement 50 separate states in the same manner? Pennsylvania and California have individual education needs -- individual energy, trade, and banking needs. Agriculture. Disease Control. Justice. The federal bodies are on the whole unnecessary.
No need for an FBI. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is capable of handling its own cases without federal intervention. And if they were not, that is a Georgia problem.
Why do we beef up these federal administrative agencies, with separate budgets and manpower, instead of simply and more efficiently supporting State agencies that already function, or create them new if needed? The answer in part is the federal government creates work, builds the bureaucracy, and justifies its existence by new regulations. A bureaucracy's job is to maintain workload and create more.
Browse the list at https://www.usa.gov/agency-index#A.
The default rule is minimal government intervention, maximum State jurisdiction, and maximum individual freedom.
We don't have a federal Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) because it would duplicate the States's DMVs. Each state has the infrastructure, manpower, and budget to run its own DMVs. Each state is positioned to run agencies according to its needs and wants. For example, Florida would have more boat registrations than, say, South Dakota. New York does not issue as many motorcycle licenses as other states. And so on. There is no need for a federal office to regulate vehicle registration and driver licensing.
We all foresee what would happen if the U.S. federal administrative state set up a DMV. It would require unnecessary additional testing, additional fees, require emissions inspections, safety inspections, and make it a general hell for Americans to register their cars and drive them. By comparison, look at Northern Virginia (Loudon, Fairfax, Alexandria) and personal property taxes and emissions inspections, which add on average in my household $3,000-$4,000 per year just to own cars. A federal DMV would mirror that and be worse.
Now extend this to the Environmental Protection Agency. Who is in the best position to protect Florida's wetlands? Naturally, it is the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Who is in the best position to regulate energy in Texas? It is of course the Texas State Energy Conservation Office. And finally, as an example, why would we need a federal department to standardize education and implement 50 separate states in the same manner? Pennsylvania and California have individual education needs -- individual energy, trade, and banking needs. Agriculture. Disease Control. Justice. The federal bodies are on the whole unnecessary.
No need for an FBI. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is capable of handling its own cases without federal intervention. And if they were not, that is a Georgia problem.
Why do we beef up these federal administrative agencies, with separate budgets and manpower, instead of simply and more efficiently supporting State agencies that already function, or create them new if needed? The answer in part is the federal government creates work, builds the bureaucracy, and justifies its existence by new regulations. A bureaucracy's job is to maintain workload and create more.
Browse the list at https://www.usa.gov/agency-index#A.
