Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Regulations? You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

Would you like to take a WAG at how many pages of regulations were added to our Federal Registrar just last week?  Just for one week … any guesses?  1,641 pages of regulations were added, detailing the regulations of 51 new rules in America.  These rules affect someone –small businesses, corporations, manufacturers, farmers, individuals – and they sure as heck affect our economy.  In fact, four of those regulations added last week were considered “economically significant,” meaning that they could cost our economy more than $100 million per regulation, per year!  As someone from the Competitive Enterprise Institute points out, “That’s the equivalent of a new regulation every 3 hours and 17 minutes — 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.”
Small businesses alone will be hit with 71 new “economically significant” regulations this year alone.  And how asinine can these regulations be?  Well let’s look at some of the ObamaCare regulations, which are finally coming down the pipeline.  It apparently took 18 pages in our Federal Registrar for the Department of Health and Human Services and Internal Revenue Service to define a "full-time employee."

Read more: http://www.boortz.com/weblogs/nealz-nuze/2012/sep/12/regulations-you-aint-seen-nothin-yet/

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