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Show JoolV rv tv By Jack A- olson dllA O UUMlCl From Utah Taxpayers Assn. to carry them out," the Wyoming report said. And Kaufman doesn't feel "Sunset "Sun-set Laws" are the cure. Interest groups and the system itself will defeat reform efforts, he contends. And he pessimistically pessimisti-cally concludes that an estimated growth of 50 to 75 percent for the present 394 agencies in the next 50 years means "all we can do is brace ourselves for what is to come." Be that as it may, we still feel some form of "Sunset Law" to make these agencies accountable if they are to stay in existence is a big step in the right direction. "Old soldiers never die," someone once observed. "They just fade away." Please allowThe Corner to paraphrase: "Few federal agencies ever die and darn few 'just fade away'." Brookings Institution made a study, said a note by our sister organization, the Wyoming Taxpayers Association, in which Herbert Kaufman, a political scien- tlst, reported on a comparison of a group of such agencies existing in 1923 with the agencies in 1973. He learned and reported in an article entitled "Are Government Wrganizations j Immortal?" that only 27 agencies died in that span, leaving 85 percent still alive. Kaufman says he made the study because be-cause of his concern with the dangers of agencies that continue forever and he wondered if federal agencies really continue forever. "H e emphasized that an immortal . agency is not likely to feel any urgent need to solve problems and adds that the proliferation of agencies compounds the problem by making it harder for any single sin-gle agency to make effective decisions and |
