I’ve thought about an approach to this I call meta-regulation: regulations on what kind of regulations can be passed.
One of my favorite ideas is to limit the number of total regulations a given agency can set (or perhaps the total wordcount of its regulations, just to punish any gaming of this meta-regulation) to half of whatever it currently is. That way, once regulations are reduced to their newly declared peak, whenever regulators want to add a new regulation, they are forced to get rid of an existing one.
Hence they will be forced to do some form of cost-benefit analysis on the regulations they keep.
I’ve thought about an approach to this I call meta-regulation: regulations on what kind of regulations can be passed.
One of my favorite ideas is to limit the number of total regulations a given agency can set (or perhaps the total wordcount of its regulations, just to punish any gaming of this meta-regulation) to half of whatever it currently is. That way, once regulations are reduced to their newly declared peak, whenever regulators want to add a new regulation, they are forced to get rid of an existing one.
Hence they will be forced to do some form of cost-benefit analysis on the regulations they keep.