Banning "non-compete" clauses is another power grab by the Deep State

The branch the founders envisioned to be the most powerful is the vestigial organ of American government and has been for decades.

One of Joe Biden's primary lines of attack against Donald Trump is that Trump will be a tyrant if he is re-elected. It is true that Trump has an inflated view of the presidency and executive power, but Biden has little credibility to attack Trump when he is acting like an autocrat himself. We saw this recently when Biden's Federal Trade Commission created a new "rule" banning non-compete clauses - agreements made by consenting adults that forbid former employees from working for a competitor.

So, getting the obvious objection out of the way: Yes, this is a Biden policy. He has authority over regulatory agencies. This is happening because he wants it to happen. If Trump (or virtually any other Republican) was President, this rule (actually a new law) would not have been passed. Biden did not even have the integrity to issue an executive order directing the FTC to implement this rule.

Is this a good law or not? Will it increase competition and innovation? It does not matter. Laws should be passed by Congress, not the Deep State. Elementary school students learn the basics of American government: The legislative branch writes the laws, the executive branch enforces the laws, and the judicial branch interprets the laws. But while that is how it works on paper, the executive branch has increasingly gobbled up authority that belongs to Congress. The branch the founders envisioned to be the most powerful is the vestigial organ of American government and has been for decades.

This is just one more in a long line of actions that have unconstitutionally expanded the power of the President while Congress sits on its hands and does nothing. Cowardly members of Congress pass vague and open-ended laws granting immense authority to regulatory agencies so they do not have to take responsibility for "rules" (which have the force of law) passed by those agencies. This anti-constitutional "rulemaking" makes every Presidential election a "must win" by inflating the authority of the President far beyond constitutional limits.

We need to start electing people to Congress who will stand up for their own authority and ban these kinds of actions by the Deep State. Congress can start by de-funding these regulatory agencies - including the salaries of the regulators - until they stop passing laws without consent of the legislative branch. Then, Congress should require that all new "rules" must be approved by Congress and signed by the President to have the force of law. We need to start electing people who respect the rule of law and the separation of powers.