Yes, the big government bugaboo is often mentioned, but never quantified at all. You can't just throw that on every example and say that's the controlling factor. Maybe they exist, but I've never seen anyone present, or link a study that shows how much more it costs some specific type business to operate in the US as opposed to some foreign nation.
This is getting as bad the leftists yelling racism. There needs to some specifics attached to some real examples. It's a factor, but no one ever presents evidence to show just how significant a factor it is. And, as I asked in another comment. Do you really want the US to have the same environmental and workplace standards as China?
Hahahah OK, I can't believe you are serious but what the hell. I love it when I can drag a skeptic into the land of reality we business owners deal with every day!
This is from a report prepared by the SBA from 2004:
"The annual cost of federal regulations in the United States increased to more than $1.1 trillion in 2004. Had every household received a bill for an equal share, each would have owed $10,172, an amount that exceeds what the average American household spent on health care in 2004 (slightly under $9,000). While all citizens and businesses of course pay some portion of these costs, the distribution of the burden of regulations is quite uneven. The portion of regulatory costs that falls initially on businesses was $5,633 per employee in 2004, a 4.1 percent cost increase since 2000 after adjusting for inflation. Small businesses, defined as firms employing fewer than 20 employees, bear the largest burden of federal regulations, as they did in the mid-1990s and in 2000. Small businesses face an annual regulatory cost of $7,647 per employee, which is 45 percent higher than the regulatory cost facing large firms (defined as firms with 500 or more employees).."
The number 1.1 Trillion should leap out at you...
Further understand this is a 2004 work. This doesn't include Obamacare and, is 6 years old now. Do you honestly think China or Mexico even comes CLOSE (we will call close one tenth of one percent)to the same costs per worker as what the US demands in compliance?
One more time: 1.1 TRILLION and that is without Obamacare!
BTW this is what the government grudgingly ADMITS.
Here is the link: http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/rs264tot.pdf
Any questions?