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Latham's Law

Latham’s law

22 September 2018

9:00 AM

22 September 2018

9:00 AM

It’s the iron law of government administration. After a new bureaucracy is established, initially with limited powers and responsibilities, it will grow exponentially, spending more money, imposing more regulation and interfering in more lives.Eventually, it will be unrecognisable from the body legislators intended. It will become an unaccountable, intensely unpopular exercise in the use of unelected power.

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