Showing posts with label Regulations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Regulations. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Obama Executive Orders, Regulations, Pardons Expected As Presidency Draws To Close

November 09, 2016 Obama Executive Orders , Pardons Expected As Presidency Draws To Close 0 Comments


By Washington Times, Nov. 08, 2016 

Look out for the executive orders, the “midnight” regulations and, perhaps most controversially, the pardons.

As President Obama runs out the clock on his eight-year tenure, analysts say, he still has plenty of business left undone, and they expect him to follow the lead of other presidents and issue a series of rules, to add to his list of executive orders, to continue his record-setting pace of commutations and perhaps add a controversial pardon or two into the mix.

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Friday, January 2, 2015

Unintended consequences

January 02, 2015 Big Government , Kevin Glass 0 Comments
How Regulation Prevents Americans From Doing Good

Kevin Glass, Jan. 1, 2015, Townhall

The way this sounds, it's absolutely absurd. Though Howard gets a few things wrong - he says of regulation like this, "each alone seems logical in the abstract." That's not true. A lot of these sound absurd on their face, even without considering some unintended side effects.

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Sunday, November 30, 2014

Hummm--By A LOT!

November 30, 2014 Environment , Environmental Protection Agency 0 Comments
Just How Badly Did The EPA Underestimate The Cost Of Their New Regulations?

Jazz Shaw, Nov. 29, 2014, Hot Air

When Barack Obama’s EPA announced their new carbon restrictions for power plants, they were quick to try to undercut arguments from coal state politicians who predicted staggering costs which would be passed on to consumers. While their own, initial estimates were not accepted by anyone of repute, they had outlets like NPR going out and saying that compliance with the crushing regulations would actually wind up producing a net cost benefit of as much as $67B.

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Sunday, September 28, 2014

How's that working for you?

September 28, 2014 Awr Hawkins , Breitbart.com 0 Comments
How Gun Control Made England 'Most Violent Country In Europe'

By Awr Hawkins, Sept. 24, 2014, Breitbart.com

Gun control in Britain passed in stages, beginning just after World War I and continuing in a reactionary fashion with increasing strictness through the 1990s.

When the final stage arrived in 1997, and virtually all handguns were banned via the Firearms Act, the promise was a reduction in crime and greater safety for the British people. But the result was the emergence of Britain as the "most violent country in Europe."

Britain began placing restrictions on gun ownership after World War I with the Firearms Act of 1920. The passage of this act was emotionally driven, based in part on the public's war-weariness and in part on the fear that an increased number of guns--guns from the battle field--would increase crime.

The Firearms Act of 1920 did not ban guns. Rather, it required that citizens who wanted a gun had to first obtain a certificate from the government. We see this same stage taking place in various places in the United States now, where a person who wants a firearm has to get a Fire Owner Identification Card (Illinois) or has to be vetted by police (Massachusetts) or both.

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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

WHY?

September 23, 2014 2nd Amendment , Gun Control 0 Comments
Obama White House Forcing New Gun Buyers Buyers To Declare Race And Ethnicity

The Knotted Gun by Swedish artist
Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd
By Kelly Riddell, Sept. 16, 2014, Washingtontimes.com

The Obama administration quietly has been forcing new gun buyers to declare their race and ethnicity, a policy change that critics say provides little law enforcement value while creating the risk of privacy intrusions and racial profiling.

With little fanfare, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in 2012 amended its Form 4473 — the transactional record the government requires gun purchasers and sellers to fill out when buying a firearm — to identify buyers as either Hispanic, Latino or not. Then a buyer must check his or her race: Indian, Asian, black, Pacific Islander or white.

The amendment is causing a headache for gun retailers, as each box needs to be checked off or else it’s an ATF violation — severe enough for the government to shut a business down. Many times people skip over the Hispanic/Latino box and only check their race, or vice versa — both of which are federal errors that can be held against the dealer.

Requiring the race and ethnic information of gun buyers is not required by federal law and provides little law enforcement value, legal experts say. And gun industry officials worry about how the information is being used and whether it constitutes an unnecessary intrusion on privacy.

“This issue concerns me deeply because, first, it’s offensive, and, secondly, there’s no need for it,” said Evan Nappen, a private practice firearms lawyer in New Jersey. “If there’s no need for an amendment, then there’s usually a political reason for the change. What this indicates is it was done for political reasons, not law enforcement reasons.”

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Saturday, June 28, 2014

4 Ways To Overcome The Worst GDP Decline In Five Years --Requires a new prez, of course

June 28, 2014 Energy , GDP 0 Comments
By E21 / Manhattan Institute, Jun. 25, 2014, Economics21.org

U.S. GDP fell by 2.9 percent in the first quarter of 2014, according to the Commerce Department'sthird and final estimate. This follows a fourth quarter GDP growth rate of 2.6 percent, slightly above the average over the past three years.

The U.S. economy shrank for the first time since the first quarter of 2011. It was the biggest drop since the first quarter of 2009. Exports declined by 8.9 percent and gross private investment dropped by 11.7 percent. The decrease would have been even larger if federal non-defense government spending had not increased by 5.9 percent.

America can take five common-sense steps to increase economic growth.

Develop energy resources. Since 2008, U.S. oil production has grown nearly 50 percent. This is small compared to the over 400 percent increase in shale gas production from 2007 to 2012 (latest data available).

Yet federal acres leased for oil and gas exploration have decreased by 24 percent over the last 5 years. In 2013, the federal government leased 36 million federal acres compared to 131 million acres in 1984. America should take full advantage of its resources and open up more federal lands for energy exploration, charging royalties that would bring in a stream of revenue to Uncle Sam.

Employment in the oil and gas sectors has increased 40 percent since 2007. Eleven million Americans now work directly and indirectly in the oil and gas industry. Additional permits on federal lands could result in an additional 3 million to 4 million additional jobs from increased U.S. hydrocarbon production, according to Manhattan Institute senior fellow Mark Mills.

Implement regulatory reform. Nearly 90,000 new final regulations have been promulgated over the past 20 years, for an average of more than 4,300 each year. The overall negative economic effect of these regulations is $1.9 trillion annually, or 9 percent of GDP, according to estimates by the Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

Small businesses and start-up companies are disproportionally harmed by regulations because they cannot afford in-house legal departments. America is discouraging entrepreneurs and start-ups, major contributors to innovation and productivity gains.

In the first quarter of 2014, productivity, measured as output per hour worked, declined at an annual rate of 1.7 percent. After growing at an average of around 2.5 percent per year since 1948, productivity growth has averaged only about 1.1 percent since 2011.

The United States needs to grow itself out of its economic problems, and senseless regulations discourage investment and make growth more difficult.

Eliminate corporate taxes. The United States has the highest corporate tax rate in the developed world. As calculated by the Tax Foundation, America's 35.3 percent effective tax rate on business is more than 6 points higher than the world average. Reforming the corporate tax rate to meet or better the world average is a solid start, but complete elimination of the corporate tax would offer the best results for economic growth. One studyby Boston University professor Laurence Kotlikoff estimated that real wages of American workers would grow by 12 percent if the corporate income tax was abolished.

Despite all the economic damage done by the corporate tax, its benefits are minimal. Less than ten percent of federal tax revenue came from the corporate income tax in 2013, an amount that could be offset by higher economic growth.

Enact comprehensive immigration reform…
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Thursday, May 15, 2014

Here’s How Crony Capitalism And Regulation Kill US Economic Growth

May 15, 2014 Crony Capitalism , James Pethokoukis 0 Comments
James Pethokoukis , May 12, 2014, Aei-ideas.org


What timing. I just wrote a blog post on how crony capitalism is hurting American business dynamism. In particular, regulation makes it harder for new firms to enter a market and gives an edge to large incumbent firms who can lobby for favorable new rules. And as I write, ” … fewer startups means fewer disruptive new competitors to force big business to innovate or die.”

Then I see this Mercatus Center study from Antony Davies:

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Monday, April 21, 2014

Examiner: The 'Soft Despotism' Of Regulation Imposes High Costs --Rarely discussed by media, costs rarely quantified

April 21, 2014 Competitive Enterprise Institute , Democracy 0 Comments
By Washington Examiner, Opinion, Apr. 18, 2014

Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Alexis de Tocqueville, author of the classic Democracy in America, were born in different times and places. But the French aristocrat and American think tanker have the measure of the federal behemoth in the age of Obama. Writing in 1835, Tocqueville eloquently predicted how it would function, while Crews today supplies in his annual compilation of federal rules and regulations, “10,000 Commandments,” the hard numbers that describe the behemoth's contemporary reach and costs.

It is always worthwhile to revisit de Tocqueville’s description of what he called the “soft despotism” of an America ruled by a bureaucratic master:

After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd.

The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is shepherd.

Crews’ new edition will appear later this month, but some of the new data is available now. Federal departments and agencies, for example, issued 3,659 “final” rules in 2013 and an additional 2,594 “proposed” rules. As a result, there were 26,417 pages of new regulations published in the Federal Register in 2013, a new record. The total of all pages published by the Federal Register in 2013 came to 79,311, the fourth highest ever recorded.

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Friday, April 4, 2014

Major Regulations 153% Higher In First 5 Years Under Obama Than GWB --Worse recovery since WWII, arguably worse ever

April 04, 2014 CNSNews.com , Economy 0 Comments
By Ali Meyer, Apr. 3, 2014
The number of major federal regulations issued in the first five years of the Obama administration was 153.2% higher than during the first five years of the Bush administration, according to data from the Heritage Foundation.
“In the first five years of President Obama’s Administration, 157 major federal regulations were issued. By comparison, only 62 major federal regulations were issued during the first five years of the George W. Bush Administration,” according to Heritage’s report,  Red Tape Rising: Five Years of Regulatory Expansion.
A major federal regulation is defined as “any rule that the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs of the Office of Management and Budget finds has resulted in or is likely to result in: (A) an annual effect on the economy of $100,000,000 or more; (B) a major increase in costs or prices for consumers, individual industries, Federal, State, or local government agencies, or geographic regions; or (C) significant adverse effects on competition, employment, investment, productivity, innovation, or on the ability of the United States-based enterprises to compete with foreign-based enterprises in domestic and export markets,” reads the report.
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