Courtesy Whackobird Senator Mike Lee: The little stack on the top is laws passed by Congress and signed by Congress. The big stack consists of 80,000 pages of regulations written by unelected Federal bureaucrats that have the power of law; each and every one of them requires an army of bureaucrats and armed officers to monitor and enforce against the citizens of the United States.
I liked it better when “Banana Republic” was a clothing store, and not a description of the country I was living in.
Redundancy 101: Elections (regardless how small) have consequences.
The printed laws of the United States, the US Federal Code, used to fit in one bound volume before the Depression and the New Deal. Now it’s a whole aisle in the law library.