The federal agencies continually avoid the Federal Register by issuing 'guidance letters' and simply re-interpreting existing rules in very creative ways Yes,

The federal agencies continually avoid the Federal Register by issuing 'guidance letters' and simply re-interpreting existing rules in very creative ways Yes, Chikasu's broad-stroke laws can only work if they are part of a cultural shift away from seing micromanagement as the government's job. The agencies are what they are from the mentality that everything in our society must be "run" perhaps by a "czar". People call this regulation, but in order to run things, the authorities need not laws and predictable rules, but arbitrary (if scope-limited) powers.