Most pages of new Regs ever at >26,000. The Obami have four of the five highest annual regulatory page publishing totals in the nation's history. The CEI estimates that regulations cost over $14,000 annually for every man, woman, child, legal or illegal in the United States. More than they spend on food, housing, transportation, medical care. The only thing they spend more money on is....Taxes.
It is estimated that ten percent of the US economy is consumed by the one half of all the world's lawyers that practice here. The law profession looks more and more like the bands of professional mercenaries and bandits that roamed Middle Age Europe. No one liked the thugs but you either hired and paid your own thugs or some other thugs would come and loot you. And like the middle ages, the little people were utterly defenseless unless they affiliated with a great Lord. It was called Feudalism and it's come back to a courtroom near you.
I always ask my lefty friends: how much is enough? How much state control? How much state spending? How much truncating of our traditional liberties is enough for them. They never give me an answer. I guess because you can never be too holy when you're building heaven on earth. But it is instructive that the two by far least free states*, both economically and socially are New York and California - deeply bankrupt polities that are #1 and #2 for domestic out migration. Evidently people hate self righteous nannies.
*As per the Mercatus Center here.
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