Came across this quote today in Ayn Rand’s essay titled “The Nature of Government”, found in the book “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.”  It seems appropriate given all that is coming out of Washington these days:

“…instead of serving as the instrument of objectivity in human relationships, the government is creating a deadly, subterranean reign of uncertainty and fear, by means of non-objective laws whose interpretation is left to the arbitrary decisions of random bureaucrats…”

This seems to me to be a spot on description of how large portions of the government operates today.   From the EPA to the IRS to Obamacare, the actual decisions on how to implement a rule and when are left to the whim of the bureaucrats involved.  We have seen this in the targetting of certain groups for extra scrutiny based on factors unrelated to the issue at hand and in the large number of instances of the phrase “as the Secretary shall decide” in the Obamacare legislation.