Tuesday, November 15, 2016

FREEDOMWORKS 11/15/2016 OBAMACARE IS GOING TO GO THE WAY OF THE DEAD!

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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