Well, That’s Kind of the Point of Cap and Trade, Isn’t It?
I’m fairly sure this is not a bug, but a feature.
The House-passed climate change bill, if enacted, would expand the federal government so much that it would take billions of dollars and thousands of new employees to implement.
Now-obscure federal agencies such as the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission would have to become mini-behemoths in order to handle their expanded responsibilities. Congress would have to appropriate billions of dollars for more bureaucrats, much of which is not reflected in the House bill.
“The problem is that there’s a mismatch between the government’s capacity and its mission,” said Darrell M. West, vice president and director of governance studies at the left-leaning Brookings Institution
I’d say that’s been true since at least the FDR administration, when the Federal government decided it would take advantage of a scared and depression-shocked population and start medding in places it was never built to go.
The truth is, our government wasn’t built to do what it’s been doing the past half-century and the strain is more than evident. You can’t read the Constitution and the Federalist Papers and honestly believe the Founders ever envisioned a government so intrusive or an American citizenry so accepting of such intrusion.
Other Posts of Interest:
- Yet Another Reason to Hate Cap-and-Trade
- Did World War II Save FDR’s Political Bacon?
- Greed is the New Fear (Or, Why Progressives Can’t Leave Well Enough Alone)
Category: The Rise of the Nanny State
Precisely. That is the whole point.