1. Trump Regulatory Rollback: Auto Fuel Efficiency Standards - via Reason
The Obama Administration imposed fuel efficiency standards on the
automobile industry requiring them to increase fuel efficiency standards
to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. Now carmakers are reportedly asking
the incoming Trump administration for a "a pathway forward" on setting
final fuel efficiency standards through 2025 and calling on the next
administration to "harmonize and adjust" the rules.
Predictably, any hint that regulations might be rolled back brings
forth howls of protest from activists. And so it has. Public Citizen,
the self-styled "people's voice in the nation's capital" issued a press
release decrying the notion that corporate average fuel economy (CAFE)
standards might be loosened: Read more here...
2. Federal Register Hits 4th Highest Count Ever - via Competitive Enterprise Institute
Yesterday the Federal Register hit its fifth-highest count of 79,380 pages.
Today is Veterans Day and the federal government is closed. But
before bureaucrats commuted back to the suburbs, they managed to tee up
the Monday, November 14 edition.
It appeared this morning. The new installment, 609 pages long, now brings the Register to 79,990 pages for the year.
That brings the 2016 Register to the fourth-highest count of all time. Read more here...
3. Under Trump, Americans Can Finally Put ObamaCare Behind us - via Forbes
Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton bodes well for the future of America’s healthcare system.
With Obamacare in a full-on “death spiral,” voters were clearly in
no mood for Clinton’s plan to “build on” the president’s healthcare law.
Instead, they chose a president who has said that his first order of
business following President Trump’s inauguration on January 20, will be to “ask Congress to immediately deliver a full repeal of Obamacare.” Read more here...
4. Another Innocent Parent Loses Their Car to Civil Asset Forfeiture - via Reason
As I've written about time and time again, one of the most
pernicious features of civil asset forfeiture is how it can be used to
not only seize property based on mere suspicion, but also to seize
property from innocent owners who were in no way connected to any
alleged illegal activity.
In many cases, this takes the form of police seizing parents' cars
because of things their children do. The parents must then prove their
innocence to retrieve their own property. Today's bit of anecdotal data
comes from Tennessee's Fox13: Read more here...
5. Progressivism Part II: FDR and the Supreme Court - by Ted Abram
In 1912, the Progressive agenda had a few very important victories.
Two Amendments to the Constitution were ratified – the federal income
tax and the popular election of Senators. Both Amendments would
ultimately expand the power and reach of the federal government and
reduce the checks and balances embodied in the Constitution and Bill of
Rights.
As described in Part I, Woodrow Wilson, as a college professor and
President of Princeton University, strongly believed in the superiority
of elites, especially those trained in Ivy League Schools, to set policy
and to rule. As President of the United States, Wilson’s policies did
little to advance the Progressive agenda. However, ideas matter and the
injection of the Progressive creed into public and political discourse
paved the way to forever change political thought, culture, and our
political institutions – until now.
The gigantic policy and governmental change occurred during the
Great Depression when a third of the workforce was unemployed, many
banks were closed and the industrial output was almost non-existent.
Thus, in 1933, when faced with mass unemployment, President Franklin
Delano Roosevelt (FDR) and Congress expanded the power of government
with the purpose to restore the American economy. Read more here...
Jason Pye
Communications Director, FreedomWorks
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