The US Federal Government has been meaningfully degraded by the brazen corruption of the people in power. Already there was a crisis of faith in authority; this is just going to make it much much worse.

I wonder if its time to rethink some of these institutions. It seems like Food Safety is especially important to the welp being of society; it might make sense to have food testing labs in every major population center/distribution hub. Funded by a tax on the food companies or perhaps even locally. Its just unbelievable that the entire US population is so vulnerable… what if a bad actor did something nasty deliberately?

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jiqiren 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Seems because of Supreme Court ruling practically every federal agency likely needs to be re-chartered to have the same structure as the Federal Reserve.

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senderista 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They need to be restructured such that their success or failure has a direct impact on the justices' retirement accounts.

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lokar 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There is no real distinction between the Fed and the FTC. The different outcomes were the reason for the decision.

	▲	jacobolus an hour ago \| parent [-]
		As you say, the current profoundly corrupt Supreme Court majority will make up whatever justification they need to get the outcome they want, case by case, and don't believe in the concept of precedent, even their own. The only thing that can be done is "re-chartering" the court – immediate significant expansion/packing followed later by drastic structural reforms.

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Hikikomori 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministerial_rule

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mindslight 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Depending how far the Supreme Council takes the unitary executive theory, we might need a straight up Constitutional amendment. And while we're at it, those department heads should be directly elected by the People - imagine being able to split your choices for which parties control the FCC vs the ATF.

(Ideally we'd move towards Ranked Pairs voting too, diminishing the two-party stranglehold as well)

	▲	senderista an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Technocrats shouldn't be popularly elected. Someone like RFK Jr. would be more likely to end up in a top position under popular election, not less likely. The American public does not generally respect expertise, but politicians mostly did until quite recently (with a few exceptions like climate change).

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projectileboy 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Well… the system mostly worked for a pretty long time. As I used to tell my kids, if you try hard enough to break something, you’ll probably succeed.

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davidw 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Breaking things is also a lot easier than building complex things.

	▲	monkpit 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Which, funnily enough, is _also_ something you can teach your children.

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solfox 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Generally the industry DOES lobby for regulation. In a deregulated industry, there's a rush towards the bottom - which means trust in the industry implodes. They don't want that. I don't believe the current administration is actually in line with the industry as a whole.