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Sustainable Freedom Lab! A Trump Strategy to Neuter HUD's AFFH Page 2 of 8 <br />Most people may not realize that the federal agency bureaucracy, not Congress is now the primary <br />lawmaking body in Washington DC. In 2015, while Congress passed 115 laws, over 400 agencies <br />churned out 3378 regulations, all with the full force of a congressional law <br />Our Founders never intended to create a nation swimming in laws. They knew that more laws <br />encourage citizens to lose their self-reliance and become increasingly dependent on government for <br />fairness. support and decision-making. That is why Congress alone has law -making authority and why <br />the people control Congress. <br />As James Bovard states in his book, Freedom in Chains, laws cause citizens "to cede more of their <br />judgment in daily life." He continues, <br />"Each additional law vesting new power in government agencies, or creating new penalties for <br />private conduct, further preempts and politicizes the citizen's life." <br />Decades ago, Congress began surrendering their responsibilities to federal agencies so they could <br />manage the details necessary to implement legisia'ive-laws Today, those 'details' have enabled federal <br />agencies to dwarf Congress, Unelected bureaucrats flood our ration with 3,000 to 4,000 new laws <br />every year. <br />it does not stop there. <br />The 3000 plus federal regulations are a microdot compared to the rules we rarely hear about. Rules <br />that forrner FTC economist Robert Rogows y calls sub -rosy regulations. He describes them as: <br />"An impressive underground regulatory infrastructure that thrives on investigations, inquiries, <br />threatened legal actions and negotiated settlements Without having to "break cover" as one <br />career regulator termed it, savvy bureaucrats can fulfill an agenda of intervention without <br />resorting to rulemaking or other formal mechanisms.Threats of regulation or litigation and the <br />skillful use of public opprobrium can be very effective instruments of a command and control <br />economy." <br />Federal agencies' sub rosa regulatory activities and guidance number in the tens of thousands every <br />year. <br />/4/2- <br />hub://sustainablefreedomlab.org/20 16/11 /1/haw-truing-cats-neuter-huds-affh/ 12/14/2016 <br />