It seldom happens that government agencies enact new regulations to "feel important and powerful". Far more often, they enact new regulations because new circu

It seldom happens that government agencies enact new regulations to "feel important and powerful". Far more often, they enact new regulations because new circumstances are similar enough to the old ones. It's usually the case that, to anyone with some knowledge of history, that the regulations are a good idea to put in place before people really start getting scammed/hurt/etc. To say that government agencies take action to "feel important and powerful" certainly casts the agencies in a trivial or pointless light, but I don't think it is accurate.