The President gets a lot of flak for failing to deliver, but there is one area where he is excelling: regulations. Last year DC set a new single year record by adding 26,417 pages new pages of regulation, a feat never before seen. When pundits and wiseguys ask why the economy is moving so slowly, just look at the glut of the Federal Register. At 79,311 pages, it is estimated that the economic impact of compliance is $1.9 trillion annually. That’s a lot of green to comply with a lot of red.
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