Idaho sunsets all regulations every year, and typically re-approves them as a matter of course…but not this year. The entire regulatory code has been cancelled, and the script has been flipped. If the governor wants to keep a regulation, state government must go through the normal approval process for a new rule. Bill Whittle has started packing his bags to move to a state where a conservative can make a fresh start.
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Conservative Fresh Start: All Regulations Cancelled in Idaho
Idaho sunsets all regulations every year, and typically re-approves them as a matter of course…but not this year. The entire regulatory code has been cancelled, and the script has been flipped. If the governor wants to keep a regulation, state government must go through the normal approval process for a new rule. Bill Whittle has started packing his bags to move to a state where a conservative can make a fresh start.
11 replies on “Conservative Fresh Start: All Regulations Cancelled in Idaho”
I hate baseline budgets. If you are a good steward of the people’s money; you get punished if you do not waste money.
Zero based budgeting is exactly how it was done where I was a police chief. Every department had to justify what it would accomplish with the funds annually sought and eventually granted. It worked very well.
You’re making me cry for what might have been when I was county commissioner.
Excellent commentary, Bill, but some laws should be perpetual and others sunsetted. And the way it should be done is to distinguish between the two kinds of law: moral and civil. Moral laws can never be reversed or abrogated; they will remain in force yesterday, today and forever. The Ten Commandments were the first moral laws. Without these, lawlessness would have pervaded the world long ago and we wouldn’t be here today. Civil laws, on the other hand, are manmade. Moral laws are immutable, but civil laws are arbitrary because certain men (i.e. lawyers) want to impose certain behavior on other men.
There will always be a struggle between personal freedom and collective compulsion. America started its experiment based on personal freedom because the people had the moral law to act as a governor to regulate their own behavior. It has since devolved into today’s morass of governmental intrusion and suppression of personal freedoms because the people have escaped the “chains of morality.”
“The pretense is made that to do away with right and wrong would produce uncivilized people, immorality, lawlessness, and social chaos. The fact is that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respected people have escaped from moral chains and are able to think freely.”
Dr. G. Brock Chisholm, first head, World Federation of Mental Health
The U.S. Constitution and its cornerstone, The Bill of Rights, is not impenetrable. That is why the second president John Adams wrote, “[W]e have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. … Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
Idaho is at least stepping in the right direction to restore personal freedom.
I live in Idaho (yes, such a hive of wretched scum and villainy has never existed in history) and I do not understand why all “sunsetted” regulations cannot be reinstated in five minutes at the beginning of each legislative session. Come January and the next legislature, and that is exactly what will happen. Each little one is not going to be re-visited! Sheesh.
And if that fails to pass, they will simply re-arrange the words and keep voting until it does.
Come on Bill, do you really think that a company who’s motto is “The sprocket that goes easy on your pocket” would be some unethical polluter?
And f*** Cogswell. If he had his way Elroy & Judy’s dad would be looking at the business end of a bread line
Don’t mix up laws and regulations. But I think we could sunset and reduce even the criminal code to a pretty short Ten Commandments for the 21st Century kind of thing. Don’t murder, don’t steal, stand up straight and tell the truth, don’t commit perjury or fraud or libel or slander, take care of your own family.
Oh my! The thought of pruning regulations by making lawmakers justify them on a yearly basis.
Making regulations an effort to maintain. Ensures solid laws remain while debatable laws will fight on their merits.
Best of all our lawmakers are too busy to add more mischief in the form “Wouldn’t this be nice.” I want my state to adopt sunsets please!
It’s like… Galt’s Gulch or something…
Would be great if all states adopted this..
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