Daily Mail editorial: Latest Obama regulations burden business growth
The Daily Mail, in their article on the regulatory burden of the Obama Administration, mentions CEI's report on the regulatory state.
As the Competitive Enterprise Institute documents in the 2015 edition of its annual report “Ten Thousand Commandments,” the hidden tax imposed by the regulatory state has reached $1.88 trillion.
“Federal environmental, safety and health, and economic regulations affect the economy by hundreds of billions of dollars annually,” wrote the report’s author, Competitive Enterprise Institute Vice President Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. “Regulatory compliance costs borne by businesses will find their way into the prices that consumers pay, affect the wages workers earn, and lead to lower levels of growth and prosperity.”
Read the full article at the Charleston Gazette-Mail.