{"id":117642,"date":"1995-05-01T13:06:00","date_gmt":"1995-05-01T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/reason.com\/1995\/05\/01\/the-never-ending-story\/"},"modified":"1995-05-01T13:06:00","modified_gmt":"1995-05-01T17:06:00","slug":"the-never-ending-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/reason.com\/1995\/05\/01\/the-never-ending-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Never-Ending Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, the House voted to require federal agencies to conduct cost-benefit analyses before issuing new regulations. But can Congress actually cut federal regulations, which analysts estimate cost $430 billion a year? The record is not exactly promising. In 1935, the <em>Federal Register<\/em>, the volume that lists Washington's regulatory mandates, was a quick read at 4,000 pages. By 1980, the book of big government came in at an all-time high: 87,000 pages. Under Reagan, the <em>Register<\/em> slimmed to 48,000 pages in 1985, but then started bulking up again almost immediately. It currently stands at over 64,000 pages.<\/p>\n<p>\"If you stacked&hellip;each of the Federal Registers from the past twelve years on top of each other, you could build a tower&hellip;the height of the Washington Monument,\" writes the Cato Institute's Stephen Moore in <a href=\"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN=0964612704\/reasonmagazineA\/?tag=reasonmagazinea-20\"><em>Government: America's #1 Growth Industry<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can the feds really roll back regulations?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"post_subtitle":"Can the feds really roll back regulations?","footnotes":"","beyondwords_generate_audio":"","beyondwords_project_id":"","beyondwords_content_id":"","beyondwords_integration_method":"","beyondwords_language_code":"","beyondwords_language_id":"","beyondwords_body_voice_id":"","beyondwords_delete_content":"","beyondwords_source":"","beyondwords_output":"","beyondwords_script_template_id":"","beyondwords_video_template_id":"","beyondwords_video_size":"","beyondwords_embed":"","beyondwords_podcast_id":"","speechkit_generate_audio":"","speechkit_project_id":"","speechkit_podcast_id":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[100203],"newsletter":[],"ttd_topic":[593963,596120,594017,607983,593831,594081,599322],"coauthors":[{"display_name":"Nick Gillespie","id":300129,"user_id":129}],"class_list":["post-117642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanny-state","category-policy","tag-regulation","print-article-type-trends","issue-may-1995","ttd_topic-cato-institute","ttd_topic-federal-register","ttd_topic-ronald-reagan","ttd_topic-stephen-moore","ttd_topic-united-states-congress","ttd_topic-united-states-house-of-representatives","ttd_topic-washington-monument"],"acf":{"post_subtitle":"Can the feds really roll back regulations?"},"subtitle":"Can the feds really roll back regulations?","categories_and_tags":[{"name":"Policy","id":2,"taxonomy":"category"},{"name":"Nanny State","id":8,"taxonomy":"category"},{"name":"Regulation","id":100203,"taxonomy":"post_tag"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/reason.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/reason.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/reason.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/reason.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/reason.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/reason.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/reason.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/reason.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/reason.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117642"},{"taxonomy":"newsletter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/reason.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter?post=117642"},{"taxonomy":"ttd_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/reason.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ttd_topic?post=117642"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/reason.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=117642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}