Bureaucracy Unit 4: Washington's Bureaucracy Strikes Again

The article, titled "Washington's Bureaucracy Strikes Again", is all about new regulations put forth by Obama administration recently regarding such hot issues as tax reform and the tax code. According to the article, the Treasury Department has instituted regulations that make it harder for businesses that have over seas sectors to avoid double taxation on the federal level. Along with that, the Department of Labor issued 1,000 pages of new and intense regulations called the "fiduciary rule", supposedly targeting the investment industry which will make saving for the future for both lower and middle class citizens even harder. The author then goes in to talk about how it is not the place of bureaucracies to make these decisions without the consent of the Legislative branch, and believes that it is an egregious misstep by the executive branch over matters concerning taxation.

This article pertains to the current unit because it focuses heavily on the power that bureaucracies wield, and the possible misuse of that power. Bureaucracies are old and incredibly powerful institutions in the American government, and the article points out just how far their influence reaches. Despite having discretionary authority, the right of taxation goes solely to Congress, even though they gave the Department of the Treasury the right to fix the tax law. However, the red tape that came out of bureaucracies instead came from the Department of Labor, something that could be viewed as an overstep of the power of the executive branch. A bureaucrat in today's society holds more power than ever before, even if Congress has given them the power of independent regulatory agencies. Bureaucracies are beginning to overstep, and that is something to fear.Link:http://dailysignal.com/2016/04/11/washingtons-bureaucracy-strikes-again/