Harry Reid: Regulations have nothing to do with killing jobs

Counting All the U.S. Government’s Regulations

The Mercatus Center at George Mason University is proud to announce the launch of a breakthrough database that provides a dramatically improved measure of the federal regulatory burden.

RegData is the first database to count the actual number of restrictions in the Code of Federal Regulations, as opposed to the former method of simply counting total pages. The interactive tool enables a far more focused view of the regulatory burden by measuring the growth of regulation by industry. While previous methods provided an idea of the growth of overall regulation, they told nothing about how those regulations affected specific sectors in the economy.

Here are the results in looking at the growth in the total number of regulations since 1997:

—Graph at link—
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/politicalcalculations/2012/10/21/counting_all_the_us_governments_regulations

maybe some republican senator who still has gonads can do some public shaming
of Hairy Reed with this

Have they made the case that they do?

How would you prove it? The problem with federal regulation is that they apply to everyone, so there is no control group to use for comparison.

You might be able to make the case if you could change just the regulations, and all the other economic factors could be held constant, but you can't.

Cheaters probably couldn’t do it alone without the stupid, so it could be both. Voter ID is an absolute necessity but they’ll probably find a way to cheat with it too...the faxed and emailed votes and early voting also enable fraud big time. How did we ever all used to vote just on Election Day.

So then the bs that Republicans need to embrace Latinos really means turn the other way and let the illegals keep on coming and voting. Will it ever stop? It’s exasperating.

Selling raw milk with a lower bacteria count than pasteurized milk - send in SWAT, shoot the dog, taze Granny in the wheelchair, point NATO rounds at the kids’ heads, and scream at everyone to “get on the ground” while the milk is disposed of...

Forget about killing jobs, some regulations kill man and beast.

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