After the recent Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling in Evers v. Marklein, state agencies are no longer subject to legislative oversight on rulemaking, allowing them to unilaterally implement regulations.
“Basically, the Supreme Court has said, ‘we want to cut the Legislature out of the policymaking process,'” said WMC’s Scott Manley.
In the past, the state’s elected representatives were able to oversee administrative rulemaking. Manley and McKenna share concerns that the lack of rulemaking oversight will lead to unnecessary and burdensome regulation of the state’s businesses, which in turn will increases costs for consumers.
“The average household in this country spends $16,000 per year in costs of regulations that were passed down to them,” Manley continued. “We the consumers are the ones actually paying for regulation.”
