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Communism is the EPA’s ONLY goal.
ed Tape Rising
Next January the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is set to issue new regulations on emissions from boilers used in facilities like oil refineries, paper mills and shopping malls. The EPA claims their new regulations will only cost the economy $9.5 billion by 2013. But the American Chemistry Council says the cost will surpass $20 billion and kill 800,000 jobs. Who is right? We don’t know. But what we do know is that if you total up all of the new regulations already passed by the Obama administration last year, using their own cost estimates, fiscal 2010 saw the largest increase in regulatory burdens placed on the U.S. economy in the nation’s recorded regulatory history, says Conn Carroll, assistant director for the Heritage Foundation’s Strategic Communications.
According to a report released last month by the Small Business Administration, existing total regulatory costs already amount to about $1.75 trillion annually — nearly twice as large as the sum of all individual income taxes collected last year.
Adding to this burden, federal agencies promulgated 43 new rules during the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010.
The total cost of these rules, each one individually calculated by the Obama administration itself, was $28 billion.
On net, the Obama administration inflicted $26.5 billion in new regulatory costs on the economy last year.
As high as this $26.5 billion total is, the actual cost of all these new regulations is almost certainly much higher, says Carroll.
First, the cost of noneconomically significant rules — rules deemed not likely to have an annual impact of $100 million or more — is not calculated.
Second, no costs were given for 12 of the rules that were deemed economically significant.
Most importantly, the costs that were given are likely minimized because the regulators are allowed to make up the cost of their own regulations. Indeed, a 2005 Office of Management and Budget Report to Congress found that regulators underestimated the costs of their rules 34 percent of the time.
Source: Conn Carroll, “Red Tape Rising,” Heritage Foundation, October 27th, 2010.
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Second thing: All "Environmental Justice" programs
The EPA wants to halt private business under the guise of saving the planet when the true goal is to make every business enterprise a Government entity, full of bureaucrats to dispense wealth and power as they see fit.
Ms. Jackson is a f’ing moron.
It was established under Nixon to do exactly what it is doing.
The only solution is repeal of the Environmental Protection Act (1971).
Everything that is happening is required, or permitted, by law.
First things first - the leadership of the fascist EPA must be hanged for treason.
Two - the EPA is an illegal fascist organization that must be destroyed.
Three - every federal judge that voted in favor of any EPA ruling must be impeached and hanged.
Four - the skeleton of the RINO traitor Nixon must be dug out and hanged from every lampost from sea to shining sea.
Five - every GD environmentalist, including the drolling troll jerks here on FR, must be rounded up and shipped - one way - to North Korea.
Six - leave or suffer the consequences.
Remember, it all began when they talked us into having public sewers!!
A lifelong communist did not have an epiphany, gorbachev simply ‘softened’ his image, but not his goal.
Uh, yes. Next question?
The EPA needs to be reduced to whatever staff can fit into an empty 7-11 store.
Socialism is the goal. Green is only the particular tool assigned to this operating unit.
Compost the b*stards!