If presidents have the right to hire, that should give them a symmetrically equal right to fire, without having to deal with a massive entanglement of deep state bureaucracies and left-wing judges. Just because the Supreme Court made a big mistake almost 100 years ago during FDR’s New Deal, which gave authority to all his committees and bureaucrats, doesn’t mean we should continue with a long, lost, wrong era.
Currently on the chopping block is the Federal Trade Commission, which itself should have been abolished more than fifty years ago. All the Federal Trade Commission does is block trade, stifle entrepreneurship, damage domestic businesses, and hurt the economy. It doesn’t help trade, it hurts trade. It doesn’t create jobs, it kills jobs. It rests on false arguments and even falser definitions of monopoly. But it should be based on the idea of ​​consumer harm, and if they did that, they would realize that we don’t need the FTC, or its commissioners, or its chairman, because in 99% of the cases brought before it, consumers are not harmed. And for the other small portion of lawsuits that might be worthwhile, the Justice Department has an antitrust division.
National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett reiterates his charge that the Federal Reserve is biased and addresses growing calls for reform regarding ‘Kudlow’.
But there is a much bigger point here. For over 100 years we have developed a vast patchwork of regulatory commissions and boards and the like, forming an administrative bureaucratic state that does nothing but damage our capitalist free market economy. They are all there to throw sand in the gears of capitalism and entrepreneurship.
It is the fourth branch of government. But the Framers did not establish a fourth branch of government. They created an executive branch, a legislature and a judiciary. And that’s it. So the moral of the story should be: eliminate the fourth branch of government. The regulatory state. The socialist branch.
Since the president, who has executive power, has the power to hire these people, he certainly should also have the power to fire them. Unencumbered, without reason. Stop socialism.
