Less than $2.1k to go!!
Posted on 03/03/2015 2:14:15 PM PST by ThethoughtsofGreg
In late 2014, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a rule that would further ratchet down national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for ground level ozone from the current level of 75 parts per billion (ppb) to a range of 65 to 70 ppb. Notably, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) declared the proposal to be the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the country.
A study recently conducted by NERA Economic Consulting and commissioned by NAM confirms NAM’s earlier statement. Specifically, the study reveals that reducing the current ozone standard to 65 ppb would reduce U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) by $140 billion per year, result in 1.4 million fewer job equivalents on average through 2040, and cost the average U.S. household $830 per year in the form of lost consumption.
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The 'land of the free, home of the brave,' is dead in the political vortex.
Cost is how the plan to drown western civ.
Bureaucrats will win. Lots and lots of affirmative action hires will be employed with new regulations.
There should be regulation that there has to be a lamppost for every bureaucrat in DC.
“There should be regulation that there has to be a lamppost for every bureaucrat in DC.”
I’d go 50% pikes, 50% lampposts.
As you read the following material, please bear in mind that the EPA possibly would’t exist today if it wasn’t for the ill-conceived 17th Amendment.
Regarding the EPA, the bottom line is that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate intrastate environmental issues. So with all due respect to the family and supporters of the late President Nixon, he was wrong to sign the bill that established the EPA imo.
Also, note that even if the states had delegated such powers to the feds that there is still a major constitutional problem with the EPA. More specifically, the Founding States had made the first numbered clauses in the Constitution, Sections 1-3 of Article I, evidently a good place to hide them from Congress, to clarify that all federal legislative (regulatory) powers are vested in the elected members of Congress, not in the executive or judicial branches, or in non-elected federal bureaucrats such as those running the EPA.
In other words, Congress has a constitutional monopoly on federal legislative powers whether it wants it or not. But by delegating federal regulatory powers to non-elected bureaucrats, Congress is wrongly protecting federal legislative powers from the wrath of the voters in blatant defiance of Sections 1-3 mentioned above imo.
We’re gonna be regulated and taxed to the point that there will be no jobs left in this country.
Yes, pikes for the Republicans and lamp posts for the Democrats.
Bureacrats would be sure there was no rope.
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