IP: Microgov't: Old Red Tape Looks Good in Comparison (fwd)

[Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>]

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> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 16:47:14 -0400
> From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
> Subject: IP: Microgov't: Old Red Tape Looks Good in Comparison

> Imagine that, instead of a Clean Air Act, with its endless rules
> for sulfides and scrubbers, we just had a Clean Air Bill of
> Rights: "No corporation or business establishment shall impose
> an unfair, excessive or unreasonable burden of air pollution on
> any person or group."
 
				ARTICLE IX. 
 
	The enumeration of the Constitution, of certain rights, shall 
not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. 
 
[other related material deleted for space]
 
>  Write down the finished rules, and make them clear
>  enough to comply with;

That's what amendnments or for.

>  Don't give bureaucrats a financial stake in their
>  actions-for instance, don't let them pocket the fines
>  they levy, lest they turn regulation into a money-making
>  scheme;

I believe there is already a clause that stipulates that *any* material
taken for public use *must* be paid for. There is no latitude for how the
person got it.

> Microgovernment is micro in another sense: not only is it
> radically decentralized, but it pokes its nose into everything,
> and no corner of life is too small for it to reach. Its
> mandate-attaining fairness in every personal
> environment-acts as a little microlever, prying here and prying
> there, opening one door after another to the onslaught of legal
> process.

 
				ARTICLE X. 
 
	The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, 
nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, 
or to the people. 
 

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