{"id":12239,"date":"2012-02-13T11:04:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T16:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=12239"},"modified":"2012-02-13T11:04:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T16:04:25","slug":"that-cost-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=12239","title":{"rendered":"That Cost What ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

CBN News<\/a>\u00a0posted an article today about the cost of federal regulations.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Author Phil Kerpen looks at how such regulation is crippling the economy in his book titled Democracy Denied: How Obama is Ingnoring You and Bypassing Congress to Radically Transform America<\/em><\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

How much do regulations cost?<\/p>\n

“They found that each federal regulator destroys an average of 98 private sector jobs per year,” he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And each federal regulator wipes out about $6.2 million in economic output each year.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The bottom line:<\/p>\n

“These busy bodies who are being paid with our tax dollars are spending all day long interfering in the private economy, and that has a very real, very negative cost associated with it,” Kerpen said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The same study found cutting the budgets of the federal regulatory agencies just 10 percent would add about $150 billion to the gross domestic product every year.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And increase the creation of private jobs by 2.5 million or so a year.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We live in a representative republic. We are responsible for the government we have. If the government is not working, we have the responsibility to replace it. “Nuff said.<\/p>\n

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