I'm kinda "hoping against hope" that this initially informative thread won't sink the rest of the way into partisan politics.
It hasn't, and I think you will find both the Red and Blue on the same page when it regards the current situation. But this admittedly trivial example is such a perfect, hallmark, example of how a bureaucracy can and would casually destroy something, almost incidentally, while attempting to make themselves look slightly better and accomplishing nothing, it would be entirely remiss not to point it out.
The current situation - endless regulation by non-representive and essentially unaccountable self-promoted masterminds attempting to control the lives of the individual - is fundamentally unAmerican. It is Plato's monstrous and evil
Republic - not the republic envisioned by the founding fathers. It is exactly and precisely what the country was formed to escape and prevent, and millions have fought and died to prevent.
For far too long, collective action has been prioritized over the liberty of the individual. Collective action is sometimes necessary, and those situations are well-defined by the constitution. Spewing out endless regulation on every topic from model airplane laws to food labelling to defining farm ditches as "navigable waterways (or a million other examples) IS NOT mentioned, is not necessary and has the effect of inhibiting personal liberty. Neither is the elected representatives creating buffer agencies to generate these regulations in order to insulate themselves from backlash.
The world will not end if model airplanes become illegal tomorrow, but multiply the same problem by many millions of other "trivial" activities and practices casually steamrolled by the same system, and it become an OCEAN of evil and mandatory to fight by all legal means necessary.
We have a system to right such conditions, it was exercised on Nov 8, 2016. Maybe we didn't get the ideal man for the job, but at least we got one willing to take up the issue.
Brett