Regulations! Are there Too Many? Why Are They So Hard to Repeal? Do they Benefit Society or the Status Quo? Should All Laws & Regulations Have Sunset Provisions? What Current Regulations Need to Go?

The Best Paragraph I've Read: The regulatory state exists because of the practical necessity for a traffic cop to oversee common resources and enforce minimum norms of safety and fairness. This is a dynamic role, requiring government to be an active umpire in a crowded world, adapting to new challenges while keeping its own house in order. But America's massive, convoluted, rigid legal structure makes it almost impossible for government to do this job sensibly and within budget. Laws are piled upon laws, making adaptation essentially illegal. Congress doesn't clean out the stables in part because of a constitutional flaw -- our founders didn't anticipate that it would be much harder to repeal a law than passing it in the first place. Bureaucracies don't clean out regulations for the additional reason that the agencies become inbred, and are run by people who do things this way because that's how it's always been done. This paragraph comes from The Atlantic.  The article is titled: "Obsolete Law - The Solutions."  the article is written by Philip K. Howard.  You can read the rest of the article here: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/03/obsolete-law-0151-the-solutions/255141/ Zac and Don discuss why it's so hard to repeal laws and regulations.  They also wonder about regulations they would like to see repealed. The following article from National Affairs is also frequently discussed in the conversation: The Next Phase of Regulatory Reform (Author: James Broughel) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bestparagraph/message