I have a new oped in the Orange County Register discussing reforms that can help address the growing problem of “zombie government,” or old government policies and programs that just seem to never die even thought they have long outlived their usefulness. While there is no single solution to this sort of “set-it-and-forget-it” approach to government that locks in old policies and programs, but I note that:
sunsets and sandboxes are two policy innovations that can help liberate California from old and cumbersome government regulations and rules. Sunsets pause or end rules or programs regularly to ensure they don’t grow stale. Sandboxes are policy experiments that allow for the temporary relaxation of regulations to see what approaches might work better.
When California, other states, and the federal government fail to occasional do spring cleanings of unneeded old rules and programs, it creates chronic regulatory accumulation that has real costs and consequences for the efficient operation of markets and important government programs.
Jump over to the OCR site to read the entire oped.
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