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EPA: Regulations would require 230,000 new employees, $21 billion
The Dailty Caller ^ | 9/26/11 | Matthew Boyle

Posted on 09/26/2011 9:24:04 AM PDT by Nachum

The Environmental Protection Agency has said new greenhouse gas regulations, as proposed, may be “absurd” in application and “impossible to administer” by its self-imposed 2016 deadline. But the agency is still asking for taxpayers to shoulder the burden of up to 230,000 new bureaucrats — at a cost of $21 billion — to attempt to implement the rules.

The EPA aims to regulate greenhouse gas emissions through the Clean Air Act, even though the law doesn’t give the EPA explicit power to do so. The agency’s authority to move forward is being challenged in court by petitioners who argue that such a decision should be left for Congress to make.

The proposed regulations would set greenhouse gas emission thresholds above which businesses must file for an EPA permit and complete extra paperwork in order to continue operating. If the EPA wins its court battle and fully rolls out the greenhouse gas regulations, the number of businesses forced into this regulatory regime would grow tremendously — from approximately 14,000 now to as many as 6.1 million.

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To: Nachum

Insaninty has a name (or an acronym).


21 posted on 09/26/2011 9:56:47 AM PDT by Captain PJ
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To: Nachum
And every regulator they hire means 20 private sector workers losing their jobs.

Obama's America = Suicide Nation.

22 posted on 09/26/2011 9:59:04 AM PDT by cookcounty (2012 choice: It's the Tea Party or the Slumber Party.)
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To: Oldexpat
Most of the EPA’s regulations are bad for business and will kill what is left of our country. What we need is a commitment from all GOP candidates is a promise to kill the EPA on their first day in office.
23 posted on 09/26/2011 10:01:37 AM PDT by ANGGAPO (Layte Gulf Beach Club)
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To: Nachum

Is the EPA constitutional? Should they really exist? A clean environment really ought to be a state/county/city issue.


24 posted on 09/26/2011 10:03:18 AM PDT by lurk
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To: Nachum
Heard someone cheering about this saying, "this is how a government creates jobs!"

I tried to point out that these were jobs that made the business less productive and added nothing to the bottom line. I don't think what that actually meant quite got through.

25 posted on 09/26/2011 10:07:25 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Can we ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Easily. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.)
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To: Nachum
Eliminate the EPA. Eliminate their job killing regulations. No need for 230,000 fascist government agents trolling private industry for opportunities to employ more lawyers.
26 posted on 09/26/2011 10:08:46 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Oldexpat

NWO. Our government under Obama, and previous administrations has been focused on the United Nations agenda for the 21st Century aka; Agenda 21.

All these rules from the EPA are for UN priorities, NOT for us. NOT for the good of our people, but for their agenda.

“H” Obamacare IMO is also for United Nations Agenda 21 to ultimately control the Earths population.


27 posted on 09/26/2011 10:25:52 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Nachum

“EPA: Regulations would require 230,000 new employees, $21 billion”

There’s a term for this: metastasis. Like cancer, it feeds off the body, growing itself larger and therefore, feeding off the body more.


28 posted on 09/26/2011 10:39:46 AM PDT by JewishRighter ( Multiculturalism is killing us.)
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To: Nachum

good lord. That agency should simply be abolished.


29 posted on 09/26/2011 11:12:27 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: G Larry
EPA's total workforce at present is under 18,000.

It's simply not feasible for them to hire on 250,000 more employees.

They are too stupid and have few people skills. I can just imagine their face to face interviews ~ they'd be levying fines on applicants for farting out of turn.

30 posted on 09/26/2011 11:14:33 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: MrB
Let me assure you that your proposal wouldn't work at all. 100% of all the penalties referenced in a regulation are backed up by statutes passed by Congress and signed by the President.

Regulators would not be choked off.

31 posted on 09/26/2011 11:17:31 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Nachum

“the number of businesses forced into this regulatory regime would grow tremendously — from approximately 14,000 now to as many as 6.1 million.”

Seig heil! This is fascism.


32 posted on 09/26/2011 11:22:49 AM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: Nachum

“the number of businesses forced into this regulatory regime would grow tremendously — from approximately 14,000 now to as many as 6.1 million.”

Seig heil! This is fascism.


33 posted on 09/26/2011 11:23:11 AM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: Nachum

I would vote for anyone who promised to do away with the EPA! These people are a danger to America and they have been allowed to run roughshod over us for way too long. ENOUGH!!


34 posted on 09/26/2011 11:31:02 AM PDT by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: Nachum

EPA=Environmental Gestapo

Obama will get his ‘army’ one way or the other...


35 posted on 09/26/2011 11:36:53 AM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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To: Nachum
But the agency is still asking for taxpayers to shoulder the burden of up to 230,000 new bureaucrats

"He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance."

36 posted on 09/26/2011 1:09:47 PM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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37 posted on 09/26/2011 8:35:50 PM PDT by bitt ( Obama is so unpopular now that the Kenyans say he was definitely born in Hawaii)
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To: bitt

Thanks for the ping!


38 posted on 09/26/2011 8:46:23 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Nachum; bitt

Obama thinks the way to establish a healthy environment for job growth is to make government even bigger.


39 posted on 09/26/2011 8:53:26 PM PDT by Allegra (Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
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40 posted on 09/26/2011 9:11:14 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (It's the Tea Party's fault!)
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