The Washington Examiner recently ran the following articles about regulation.
"What will Congress do to stop Obama's red tape explosion?"
"NARAL puts abortion profits ahead of women's safety"
Having friends and family who own and operate small businesses, I know their workload of complying with regulations frequently exceeds that of performing the work of their actual business. The regulations have such complexity that the same question to more than one regulator may get completely different answers, sometimes contradicting one another. Try to avoid pulling your hair out when you have to satisfy them all at once! Most Americans don't experience this first hand and hence don't have experience with this and how it compromises business growth, which of course has a tight correlation with job growth. So that Americans gain such a perspective, I propose the following. Before government regulators, such as employees of the EPA, collect each bi-weekly paycheck and vacation day, they must complete a maze of regulatory paperwork comparable to that which they impose upon domestic industry. Shall we extend this to recipients of entitlement spending while we're at it? If this happens, excessive regulation will shrink. NARAL is protesting Virginia requiring abortion clinics to meet medical standards. If they are throwing a temper tantrum about this, then I think we know what they really think about regulations.
