Having friends and family who own and operate small businesses, I know their workload of complying with regulations can exceed that of performing the work of their actual business, much in tune with Conn Carroll's, "Durbin fee," article.
Conn Carroll: 'Durbin fee' will cost bank customers billions
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 how it compromises business growth, which
of course has a tight correlation with job growth. To give the regulators such a perspective, I propose the following. Before
regulators, such as employees of the EPA and administrators of Obamacare, collect each paycheck, they must complete a maze of regulatory paperwork comparable to that which they impose upon domestic industry. For once, the nanny-state advocates will have to eat what they cook.
Here's a strong indicator of how the extreme Left will react: NARAL is protesting Virginia requiring abortion clinics to meet the same safety standards of ambulatory surgical centers.
NARAL puts abortion profits ahead of women's safety
