Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) decided to print out all 20,000 pages of ObamaCare regulations, stack them in a single pile, and photograph the result using a chair for reference.
That’s a good seven feet of regulations. The top 828 pages, by the way, were released in a single day. The draft application to apply for benefits under ObamaCare runs 15 pages for a family of three, and according to a report from the Associated Press, “at least three major federal agencies, including the IRS, will scrutinize your application.”
That pile of ObamaCare paperwork is a pretty good visual metaphor for the increasingly large State towering over its diminished citizens. The government can, by definition, only grow larger at the expense of individual liberty and private commerce. Looming next to Sen. McConnell’s empty chair – further visual irony! – are 20,000 pages of things you cannot do, or must do, that remained within the bounds of individual decision-making as recently as 2008. Those pages are brimming with hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, fines, subsidies, and debt.
So the American people grow smaller, and increasingly come to resemble children in the eyes of their betters. How else to explain New York mayor Michael Bloomberg’s judicially-thwarted Big Gulp ban? It didn’t even make a shred of rational sense – it was an arbitrary set of laws that forbid some “unhealthy” beverages, sold by certain vendors, but permitted others. ”Because I said so!” is a common response to the child’s demand to know why he can’t have something he wants.
Click here to look at the visual comparison.