Title: The Administrative State Is Under Assault And That's A Good Thing
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The Administrative State Is Under Assault And That's A Good Thing
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The Administrative State Is Under Assault And That's A Good Thing
Chuck DeVore
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The “administrative state” has been in the news of late. Few Americans can define it though. The administrative state describes a form of government that uses an extensive professional class to provide oversight over government, the economy and society. It stands in stark contrast to a representative democracy with limited powers and reach. The quintessential example of the administrative state are the 220,000 federal regulators working with a regulatory budget of about $63 billion who write and enforce 185,000 pages of rules that cost the economy in the neighborhood of $1.9 trillion annually.