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> it should be an easy political win for legislators to smack it down with some new more specific laws. Which is a lengthy process and relies on Congress actua
by hanniabu 2y ago
> it should be an easy political win for legislators to smack it down with some new more specific laws.
Which is a lengthy process and relies on Congress actually being effective and free of corruption, which they aren't.
- nine_k 2y agoWhile agencies may be faster, are they, in general, more effective and less corrupt?
- StewardMcOy 2y agoThan the United States Congress? They're absolutely more effective. Congress may have been an innovative design in 1787, but it's grown into such a pile of misaligned incentives that it's almost completely dysfunctional. As for corruption, I suspect agencies may be more or less corrupt on an individual basis. I don't have any hard data, but I suspect they're less corrupt on average. The Supreme Court has, repeatedly, given Congress members the go-ahead to be almost as corrupt as they want, while they're harsher on executive branch agencies.