Posted on 09/24/2009 5:34:52 PM PDT by dragnet2
Have you ever wondered about the real costs of government on our society?
Not just the cost in taxes to pay for government services, but the costs government imposes on our daily lives? As Californians suffer through the worst recession in decades, is our government working to make things easier for us, or harder?
When the State Legislature imposes new regulations on business, what is the impact on our pocket books? How many jobs are lost when agencies like the California Air Resources Board (CARB) or the Cal EPA impose new regulatory burdens on those employers who seek to create jobs and wealth?
I have spent the last three weeks lobbying the Governor’s office urging the release of an historic study that spells out the costs imposed on jobs and businesses in this state by overregulation.
This report is now available to the public. This study outlines the real costs to businesses in our state that are caused by our own government. The study originated from AB 2330 (Arambula), which passed with bi-partisan support in 2006. This was a quantitative study that focused on the actual losses in economic output, losses in jobs, the indirect losses in business taxes, and finally losses in labor income (the monies a family would normally spend as part of household disposable income). The study can be found on the Governor’s website here.
The findings of this study confirm what many have said about the root causes of California’s economic decline. The total cost of regulation to the State of California is $492.994 billion, almost five times the state’s general fund budget, and almost a third of our gross state product! In fact, the indirect business taxes lost as a result of these regulations is a staggering $16.024 billion, or more than half of our recent deficit. These indirect business taxes could have helped fund many of the state’s departmental budgets, and prevented the current economic crisis now faced by this state.
What is even more revealing is the impact of regulations on jobs and individual families in this state. Overregulation in California has cost this state almost 4 million jobs, or a tenth of our state’s total population. The impact of regulations on labor income was a whopping $210.471 billion, or almost $40,000 per California family - money that would normally be spent on things like food, clothes, health care, entertainment, and general household operations. Do California families know they’ve been short-changed like this? Do voters know our regulatory agencies have become predatory wardens used to waterboard businesses into submission? Perhaps the worst revelation of this study is that most of the regulatory burdens in this state do not fall upon big corporations, but are instead imposed upon small businesses. The total cost of regulation was $134,122.48, and one job lost per small business. That’s right, over one hundred thousand dollars so that government bureaucrats can tell you how to run your business. Is it any wonder so many businesses are now fleeing our state and taking the jobs with them?
The time has come for the de-regulation of California. We passed the point of basic regulations for health and safety long ago, and have regulated our economy to its death. We are killing businesses and jobs, and continue to force honest, hard-working people to the unemployment lines. It is unsustainable madness that places government power and out-of-control spending over the needs of the people.
It is time to again put people first. Let’s start by getting them back to work.
The total cost of government regulation is 1/2 TRILLION per year to tax payers and businesses. No joke.
Were going to compete with China with this criminal government intrusion? Right!
Why are they obsessed with crushing us asked John and Ken?
This guy just stated:
Because there are people behind the scenes trying to intentionally drive people out of the states for the reason of reducing the population in Cal....lol
They want to depopulate the state! This is what the man just said.
So what? California votes Democrat. Let them rot in their crappy economy. Liberate California before they destroy America!!!!!
If they would stay there, fine... but they’re moving into the surrounding states and bringing their fruit and nuts politics with them... they’re a virus.
well no...this has the potential to start a major depression...just like zer0bama was hoping for so he could more firmly use the nanny state to keep us all in his little Marxist paradise...
this is more than one state.....this has the potential dustbowl oklahoma circa the 1930’s. all because of a minnow.
Shall we all hope April Lexington rots?
Or is your state democrat free and a hub of conservationism?
Tell me April, with all the government corruption and fraud, do you believe our electoral process has not been undermined and compromised?
These policies on a state scale, overlayed by national policies with similar objectives — a true “man-caused disaster”.
You might want to read this part from the article:
"I have spent the last three weeks lobbying the Governor’s office urging the release of an historic study that spells out the costs imposed on jobs and businesses in this state by over regulation. This report is now available to the public. This study outlines the real costs to businesses in our state that are caused by our own government. The study originated from AB 2330 (Arambula), which passed with bi-partisan support in 2006."
I would guess an historic study from those working within government and an editorial are two very different things.
ping
FR is located in CA - when they go under where are you going to post on? Daily Kos?
I was gonna ask...WHY? But then it becomes clear..families that stick together are generally happier, more productive, and more self-sustaining in times of recession/depression..just what the liberals despise. They want to break everyone up, divide up the herd, break up friendships, relationships and marriages...a broken family is easier to control (i.e. Social Services).
Ernst Röhm Emanuel
Ballerina, Pantywaist, White House Chief of Staff
“Rule one: Never allow a crisis to go to waste,”
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