Red Tape Rising: Obama-Era Regulation at the Three-Year Mark

[Greenbeard]

I'm all for taking the EPA down a few notches if not taking it out all-together.

Just repeal the Clean Air Act and be done with it.

 

[Polk]

I'm all for taking the EPA down a few notches if not taking it out all-together.

Just repeal the Clean Air Act and be done with it.

Love that tasty smog.

 

[LoneLaugher]

The first one that was not an SEC related one:

March 21, 2011: Environmental Protection Agency, “Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources and Emission Guidelines for Existing Sources: Commercial and Industrial Solid Waste Incineration Units.” Established new standards of performance and emission limits for solid waste incinerators. A petition to stay the rule by a number of industry associations noted “substantial uncertainty as to the applicability of the final rules”; “key elements…not supported by the underlying data”; and “several of the emissions standards are so stringent that companies predict that no viable means of complying with them will be devised.”[30]
Annual Cost: $286.2 million
Initial Cost: $721.7 million

One more time............where are the actual details regarding how this regulation has hampered the industry? Really....you have not even attempted to support your claim.

You are so bad at this, that it isn't even much fun to make fun of you.

Exactly what are you looking for besides adding cost, causing confusion, eliminating the possibility of compliance and removing the ability to adequately understand what is desired by the regulations?

Is there anything else that a government can do outside of simply shutting a company down as they have done with Gibson and Boeing?

You will need to define for me what you are looking for here.

Give me the name or names of businesses that have, as a direct result of one of these regulations. had revenues reduced or costs increased to a point that has forced them to curtail operations, sell off divisions, eliminate jobs or fail.

If you find one, you will also be asked to provide evidence that said loss in revenues has not been shifted to another business or even another industry that has benefited from the regulation.

If President Obama is, as you nutters like to say, presiding over a period of unprecedented government regulation that is stifling businesses and choking the economy.....you should be able to provide clear examples of this. Not just claims from lobbying groups.

Just try. Please.

 

[starcraftzzz]

The computer revolution has reduced the number of people required to accomplish any task from garbage collection to executive activities except one and that is government.

The number of government employees which are almost exclusively administrative should have reduced by about 50% but instead has grown by about 10%.

This is for work that was already being done.

For a completely new set of duties, we may all cower under the weight of the burgeoning bureaucracies about to emerge.

Federal Workforce Trend, 2000-2010 | Intellectual Takeout (ITO)

That is because 1) the government began using computerized things sooner, meaning your dates don't reflect when the government actually reduces the administrative works.