By Bill Haley Most Haley2024 reforms can be taken on their own and do not need the full CRA Structure or other Haley2024 reforms. This reform could easily be taken alone. This article will first discuss this reform as a stand-alone reform and then in the complete CRA Structure. Just to make sure there is no confusion, all government authority will be separated into thirty near equal Sectors. Distinct leadership means that in a federal, state, and local level, there will be a different US Congress, a different State Legislative Branch and a different City/town council for each of the thirty Sectors. Each legislative, executive, and judicial branch only has the authority given to that Sector. That means thirty Governors, thirty Presidents, and thirty Mayors. |
That also means thirty complete sets of congressmen, thirty complete sets of state legislatures and thirty complete sets of city councils. There is a separate judicial branch for each of the thirty Sectors. The governor in the education Sector just administrates education. The judicial branch in the Human Resources Sector will only rule on issues of labor law. The president of the Banking Sector oversees the banking authority given to the Federal government. The federal level Commander in Chief will only have command over the military and not environmental or insurance matters. The elected leaders of the Family Law Sector would only control family law questions and not authority over food safety. |
A member of Congress in the military Sector only decides military issues. A member of the house of representatives in the Charity Sector only decides issues of helping the poor. A member of the city council in the Roads Sector only makes decisions regarding local roads. The state representative in the Prison Sector controls state prison policy. The local member of the city council in the Land and Water Sector makes zoning laws just for the localities. The fact that there is overlap means that there would need to be cooperation and coordination between leaders of different Sectors. |
This separation of authority into thirty Sectors is a significant check and balance issue. The leaders of the Environmental Sector would often come into conflicts with the leaders of the land and water Sector. The leaders of the Law Enforcement Sector will check the leaders of the Judicial Sector. Health Care regulations often overlap the separate Sector of Insurance. Every Sector will have very clear lines of authority and responsibilities; however, there is an enormous need for cooperation. Families are often the first line of helping the poor and needy; thus, there is overlap in the Family Law Sector and the Charity Sector. |
Under this Haley2024 reform, candidates for elected office in the legislative branch or executive branch would likely have experience in their chosen Sector. The vast majority of the current members of Congress have little knowledge of banking yet are in charge of regulating them. Current members of Congress had the skill of campaigning, thus gained the authority to make environmental laws and establish prison policy with little to no knowledge of either. A Congressmen on the board overseeing NASA once asked if the Mars Rover was going to go over to where the astronauts planted the flag! A congresswoman that heads the banking committee asked banking executives in a Congressional hearing, what are they doing about the student loan crisis, not understanding that the federal government took over all student loans ten years before. |
Creating thirty Sectors means that people with experience and knowledge of a Sector would be more likely to seek leadership in that Sector. Voters would be able to concentrate their decision on the options of candidates based strictly on their views within each Sector. It is often stated that ‘I am a fiscal conservative and a social moderate’ or many other combinations of viewpoints. This reform allows a voter to vote for small government in spending and a relaxed standard of the definition of marriage. A voter might want harsher sentences for criminals and a more significant welfare state. Under the current system, a voter has to pick one person to control laws and regulation on all governmental issues. |
If a governor in the current system, spent one full day learning about the issues regarding each of these Sectors, it would take 30 working days to complete one day on each Sector. After this reform, the governor would spend every day just on their Sector. This greater focus would create much more informed laws and regulations. The unintended results of bad laws would have much greater attention when a legislator is not busy learning about the other 29 Sectors. |
Some people will claim that this would give legislators more time to meddle and pass more bad laws, which is undoubtedly a risk. Some people will argue that people already do not pay attention to elections and rarely know their candidate's position, and we cannot handle 30 times the elections. That is also undoubtedly true; however, political parties and think tanks can play a significant role in vetting candidates. This negative externality is curtailed significantly with other Haley2024 reforms in the CRA Structure. |
It is essential to realize that this reform does not expand or shrink government. There are other reforms to address the size of government. This 30 Sector reform idea is strictly on separating power and authority so politicians and voters can have a division of labor, responsibility, and votes. The Haley2024 CRA Structure goes further to allow competing governing agencies to compete for the service of governance. Roughly a dozen Competitive Regulatory Agencies (CRA) will compete for the service of regulations in every Sector. |
The greater CRA Structure allows everyone to select their governing agency. Thus, their chosen candidates win their election and governs them in the manner of their choosing. With about a dozen CRA’s, everyone will get very close to their preferred policies and allow all their neighbors to also be governed within their values. A more complete understanding of the Rating System for each Sector will give citizens the knowledge and understanding that society can function with a lower level of regulations. |