I have a new idea for regulations.

[OCinBuffalo]

Peg them to each other. Be creative. And, in being creative go for pissing off as many special interest clowns as possible. This is how we break the stranglehold that lobbyists have on DC, but, this is also how we destroy the abuse of Federal power we see with the IRS.

 

Examples:

If you want to increase regulations on banks, that automatically increases regulations on abortion clinics.

If you want to increase regulations on businesses, that automatically increases regulations on public employees.

If you want to increase taxes(ahem, "fees") on some industry, you have to cut the budget of an related(unrelated?) department by the same amount.

 

That's the gist. I am sure you guys can come up with better/funnier/more painful ones. Tie people that "hate" each other, to each other. Or, like in the first example, tie the biggest lobbys, which have nothing else in common with each other, to each other.

 

Everything must be arbitrary, or it doesn't work. Unfettered idiotic regulations are a real problem in this country, largely because it's entirely too easy for the Federal government to come down on an industry who has little ability to defend itself, and, there's no consequences for the government. Worse, often these regs are used as a justification for growth of government. In reality, the cause and effect are reversed: new regs are the effect of growing government, because all these new people need something to do. Obama himself has talked about getting rid of regulations(and done nothing, shocker). That's because the solution to the problem, reduce regulations, is just as obvious as why he does nothing: it hurts his constituency.

 

Thus, it's time to add some pain to the gain.

 

And of course the reverse is also true: if you want to decrease regs, then some Federal agency gets their regs reduced.

 

Fair, is fair, but, as long as we live in a ridiculously over-regulated environment, that can be changed solely based on the whinings of a tiny minority of our people with enough $, we don't even know what fair is.

Edited May 2, 2014 by OCinBuffalo

[Tiberius]

http://www.kuntakinte.org/history.html

[Jauronimo]

http://www.kuntakinte.org/history.html

Settle down, Toby. Its too early for your ****.

[B-Man]

The regulatory burden is often overlooked because “costs are difficult to quantify because, unlike taxes, they are budgeted and often indirect,” said Crews. In 2013, the report states that federal regulations drained $1.863 trillion from the American economy. On the global scale, that $1.863 trillion price tag would peg U.S. regulatory costs as the world’s tenth ranked economy, more than the entire GDP of Canada ($1.82 trillion) and India ($1.84 trillion).

 

The 2014 report’s findings also include:

 

- $14,974: the price each household pays to cover regulatory costs.

 

- 72: the number of new laws in 2013 which has led to 3,659 new rules, or a new rule every 2.5 hours.

 

- 191: number of “economically significant” rules costing more than $100 million each in annual compliance costs.

 

- 79,311: pages of regulations in the 2013 Federal Register, the fourth highest ever. Atop the list are 81,405 pages in 2010 and 81,247 in 2011, both years under President Obama’s watch.

 

- $10,585: average price per-employee for small business (fewer than 20 employees) to comply with regulatory costs. In comparison, businesses with 500 or more employees pay $7,755 for each worker.

 

 

 

The regulatory burden imposed by the Obama administration has stymied economic growth and has led to fewer jobs and lower incomes. The President has imposed his political agenda through regulation, adding hidden taxes that costs citizens more and restricts innovation. Each year, the Cost of Government Center produces the Cost of Government Day Report, which looks at these costs and calculates how many days the average American must work to pay off the burden of government regulation. Last year, workers toiled until July 13 to pay for all the costs imposed by government spending and regulation at the federal, state and local levels.

 

 

http://costofgovernment.org/new-report-reveals-point-trillion-cost-a1817

[Tiberius]

The regulatory burden is often overlooked because “costs are difficult to quantify because, unlike taxes, they are budgeted and often indirect,” said Crews. In 2013, the report states that federal regulations drained $1.863 trillion from the American economy. On the global scale, that $1.863 trillion price tag would peg U.S. regulatory costs as the world’s tenth ranked economy, more than the entire GDP of Canada ($1.82 trillion) and India ($1.84 trillion).

 

The 2014 report’s findings also include:

 

- $14,974: the price each household pays to cover regulatory costs.

 

- 72: the number of new laws in 2013 which has led to 3,659 new rules, or a new rule every 2.5 hours.

 

- 191: number of “economically significant” rules costing more than $100 million each in annual compliance costs.

 

- 79,311: pages of regulations in the 2013 Federal Register, the fourth highest ever. Atop the list are 81,405 pages in 2010 and 81,247 in 2011, both years under President Obama’s watch.

 

- $10,585: average price per-employee for small business (fewer than 20 employees) to comply with regulatory costs. In comparison, businesses with 500 or more employees pay $7,755 for each worker.

 

 

 

The regulatory burden imposed by the Obama administration has stymied economic growth and has led to fewer jobs and lower incomes. The President has imposed his political agenda through regulation, adding hidden taxes that costs citizens more and restricts innovation. Each year, the Cost of Government Center produces the Cost of Government Day Report, which looks at these costs and calculates how many days the average American must work to pay off the burden of government regulation. Last year, workers toiled until July 13 to pay for all the costs imposed by government spending and regulation at the federal, state and local levels.

 

 

http://costofgovernm...lion-cost-a1817

Yes, we need to be more like China I guess...cough cough