Obama’s Regulatory Race War

 

 

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Study: Obama issued $743B in regs
By Tim Devaney
08/08/16 12:24 P.M. EDT
The Hill
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Since President Obama took office in 2009, the federal government has issued 600 major regulations totaling $743 billion, according to a new study from the conservative American Action Forum.

The Obama administration issues an average of 81 major rules, those with an economic impact of at least $100 million, on a yearly basis, the study found.

That’s about one major rule every four to five days, or, as the American Action Forum puts it, one rule for every three days that the federal government is open.

“It is a $2,294 regulatory imposition on every person in the United States,” wrote Sam Batkins, director of regulatory policy at the American Action Forum, who conducted the study.

At the current pace of rulemaking, the American Action Forum estimates the Obama administration will issue a total 641 major rules before the president leaves office, bringing the nation’s regulatory bill to $813 billion.

By contrast, President George W. Bush issued 426 major rules during his tenure in the White House.

[Socialist and communist] Public interest groups often dispute studies from the American Action Forum, which they say do not accurately take into account the economic benefits of regulations.

[Tim Devaney just outed himself as a leftist. American Action Forum is itself a public interest group. Devaney sophistically insinuated that AAF is opposed to the public interest, while identifying that groups supporting the race war regime of the John Doe calling himself “Barack Hussein Obama” as “public interest groups.” There are no “economic benefits of regulations,” unless you count confiscating the wealth earned by whites, and handing it over to blacks, Hispanics, Moslems and other members of the racial socialist alliance, as an “economic benefit.” But how many phony “public interest groups” would be up front about that?]