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> [...] but I honestly think it's going to be healthier for democracy overall if congress stop leaning on the courts and bureaucracy to make critical regulations.

I don't think that scales. When some group of people is large enough and has enough different things going on it has to delegate regulation making. There is just too much for the top level of management to be directly regulating everything.

The larger the entity grows and the more it has going on the more regulation making needs to be delegated. At some point you reach the point where even critical regulation has to be delegated.

We passed that point, I think, a long time ago in all the large first world economies.



I agree that we can't ask congress to write the entire federal code, but congress could pass a law which literally says:

"It is within the power of the EPA to regulate carbon emissions"

and leave the rest to the bureaucrats, and that would have been enough. I don't think that's an unreasonable ask.




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