$1.9 trillion...Each household pays $14,974 A YEAR in regulatory hidden tax"

[healthmyths]

"U.S. households 'pay' $14,974 annually in regulatory hidden tax," or 23% of the average income of $65,596.
The Federal Register finished 2013 at 79,311 pages, the fourth highest total in history.
That didn't match President Obama's 2010 all-time record of 81,405 pages.

But Mr. Obama can console himself by noting that of the five highest Federal Register page counts, four have occurred on his watch.
Drawing largely on government statistics, Mr. Crews estimates that the overall cost of regulatory compliance and its economic impact is about $1.9 trillion annually.

Regulator Without Peer - WSJ.com wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304311204579505953682216682.html

How absolutely STUPID!

Every day every ONE of us break one or more of these 81,405 FEDERAL regulations!

No accounting for how many state/local regulations each one of us breaks EACH DAY!


AAF found that the cumulative number of hours spent on regulatory-related paperwork in 2013 was 10.38 billion hours,
an increase of nearly 158 million hours from 2012.
The report’s author believes it would take more than 78,000 employees working full-time to complete the additional paperwork.

Regulators created many hours of paperwork in 2013 | The Daily Caller

FOR WHAT???
-- A rural Oregon man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 days in jail and over $1,500 in fines because he had three reservoirs on his property to collect and use rainwater.
-- In Hazelwood, Missouri it is actually illegal for little girls to sell girl scout cookies in the front yards of their own homes.
-- man that was arrested for hosting a Bible study in his own home. Well, it turns out that he is still in prison serving his 60 day prison sentence.
-- An 11-year-old kid down in Florida was actually arrested by police, thrown in jail and charged with a third-degree felony simply for bringing a plastic butter knife to school.
-- For example, down in Louisiana one church was recently ordered to stop giving out water because it did not have the “proper permit” to do so.
19 Examples Of How Control Freaks Are Killing America With Their Completely Ridiculous Regulations

 

[Hoosier4Liberty]

The power to tax and regulate is the power to destroy.

Too bad so many think that the elastic clause gives our government the right to spend away our future and regulate away our hopes and dreams.

It's blatantly un-American.

 

[healthmyths]

The power to tax and regulate is the power to destroy.

Too bad so many think that the elastic clause gives our government the right to spend away our future and regulate away our hopes and dreams.

It's blatantly un-American.

If we took 20% of the $1.9 trillion and spent on a total educational/advertising program that would encourage because it makes so much common sense this
adage: "Do unto others as you would others do unto you"!
Simple but totally practical adage.
For example.. $400 billion campaign starting at birth and continuing through adulthood to show the practical value of the adage.
If an ad campaign showed how a president of a large company taking this adage into account would recognize that his company has a social responsibility to
provide their customers with goods or services that did the least environmental damage and gave the most value for the consumers' dollars.
In doing so the President could SAVE billions in red tape compliance,etc. and of course environment would benefit as would consumers' acquisition.

If at a grade school level the kids were taught WHY driving at the speed limit in the school zone makes practical physical laws sense, i.e.
you can't stop your car if you are driving at 50 mph and a kid darts out behind a car.

These are simple examples but people are manipulated EVERY DAY by advertising.. so why not manipulate us to "do unto others as we would have others do unto us"?

Trillions of dollars saved by self regulations and IF advertising on TV/papers shaving cream increases sales... WHY not comprehend that we can change the behavior
of the masses to "do unto others as you would have others do unto you"!

 

[healthmyths]

After years of rapid growth during the Obama administration, the cost of federal regulations is now bigger than the entire economies of all but nine countries in the world.
That's according to the latest annual report on the regulatory state issued by the free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute, titled "Ten Thousand Commandments."
Compiling reports of compliance costs from various government agencies and outside sources, author Clyde Wayne Crews found that the "regulation tax" imposed on the economy now tops $1.86 trillion.
By comparison, Canada's entire GDP is $1.82 trillion. India's is $1.84 trillion.
The problem, Crews notes, is that the combined cost of this "tax" never shows up anywhere in the federal budget — or any other official report — even though it is now bigger than individual and corporate income taxes combined.
As a result, "policymakers find it easier to impose regulatory costs relative to undertaking more government spending," Crews notes, "because of the lack of disclosure and accountability for regulatory costs."
Among the findings in the report:
On a per-household basis, federal regulatory costs average $14,974, which is more than the typical household spends on just about anything else.


U.S. Federal Regulatory Costs Are The World's 10th Largest Economy - Investors.com