• States Looking to Repeal 'job-killing' Regulations
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[release]NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- He is known as The Repealer. Dennis Taylor's job is to repeal burdensome and outdated regulations that hinder business development in Kansas. The Sunflower State is only one of several looking to lessen what they call the regulatory burden on their states. Offices designed to repeal, review or "reinvent" regulations are sprouting up across the country. Some states, such as Kansas and Michigan, are reviewing rules to see which ones need to be eliminated. Others, including Florida, are going a step further and freezing new rule-making while examining existing regulations. The Republican governors are mirroring efforts at the federal level to review and discard barriers to employment growth. Both President Obama and the House of Representatives are looking to lighten the regulatory load on companies. After a lawmaker asked for [B][URL="http://money.cnn.com/2011/02/07/news/economy/issa_business_regulation/index.htm?iid=EL"]examples of burdensome federal regulations[/URL][/B], businesses responded with a nearly 2,000-page list of rules they'd like eliminated.[/release] Source: [URL]http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/04/news/economy/state_regulation_repeal_governor/[/URL]
Glad to hear that at least [i]some[/i] people are focusing on the job market. America needs jobs. Jobs are what we need. If there's one thing the country needs more of, it's jobs. So, naturally, the issue that the entire country zeroes in on like a well-trained bomb dog hot on the trail is: health care reform. We get too easily distracted.
These people seem to think that the reason jobs aren't just sprouting up out of the ground is due to some massive amount of federal red tape, and that's just not the case.
Business-owners are in two-thousand pages of disagreement with you, and since President Obama has promised to "review government regulations" in order to "strike the right balance" between between health, safety and environmental regulations, and economic growth, it is fair to say that he does too! Loosening certain outdated or overly restrictive regulations to promote job growth seems like a good start to me. [i]Something[/i] has to be done. We can't just keep acting surprised when new jobs don't appear from thin air. "We really didn't see that one coming!"
I am pretty sure red tape is not the primary reason for there being a lack of jobs, reason my company is not employing people is because there is a lack of contracts being offered in the industry, and they are not coming because people do not have money to throw around, at no point has any regulation got in the way what so ever.
From what I'm seeing in the article many of the regulations in question are expensive and overly restrictive EPA requirements. Loosening some of these regulations would free up more money for business-owners and allow for faster expansion and more employees. Of course this is all just guess-work, because it's a [i]really[/i] long letter, and nobody's actually ever going to read it. I'm not even convinced that it was actually written. The last thousand pages or so are just copy-pasted song lyrics.
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;28420556]Business-owners are in two-thousand pages of disagreement with you, and since President Obama has promised to "review government regulations" in order to "strike the right balance" between between health, safety and environmental regulations, and economic growth, it is fair to say that he does too! Loosening certain outdated or overly restrictive regulations to promote job growth seems like a good start to me. [i]Something[/i] has to be done. We can't just keep acting surprised when new jobs don't appear from thin air. "We really didn't see that one coming!"[/QUOTE] I'm in agreement with you that are no doubt outdated policies that we don't need anymore, but what I'm saying is that outdated or "overly-restrictive" regulations aren't the main reason for the big loss of American jobs.
[quote]repeal burdensome and outdated regulations that hinder business development[/quote] I don't see where in that article it says "regulations are the main reason for the big loss of American jobs." simply that this would allow business to develop more efficiently. Basically, it means they will have more money. Some will invest in new employees, others won't.
Sure, we can remove the so called "Red Tape". However, removing the tape is not sustainable at all. It was the lack of red tape that caused the economic recession.
I still don't quite understand America. You sink billions into kissing capitalist asses and building a massive army, but yet you let your citizens suffer? Why haven't you guys taken advantage of the whole 2nd amendment thing already and shown the government that they should afraid of the citizens and they should stop fucking up the country?
[QUOTE=Megafanx13;28420122] After a lawmaker asked for [B][URL="http://money.cnn.com/2011/02/07/news/economy/issa_business_regulation/index.htm?iid=EL"]examples of burdensome federal regulations[/URL][/B], businesses responded with a nearly 2,000-page list of rules they'd like eliminated.[/QUOTE] "We bought and paid for you people, now this is what we want."
[QUOTE=nikomo;28458159]I still don't quite understand America. You sink billions into kissing capitalist asses and building a massive army, but yet you let your citizens suffer? Why haven't you guys taken advantage of the whole 2nd amendment thing already and shown the government that they should afraid of the citizens and they should stop fucking up the country?[/QUOTE] Because the people stockpiling guns for a revolution are the kind who want a bigger military and less social services
I'd rather the US doesn't turn into China - environment wise. I really wish these businesses were more "MAKE ENVIRONMENTAL MEASURES MORE COST EFFECTIVE!" and less "REPEAL EVERYTHING!".
[QUOTE=Contag;28458644]I'd rather the US doesn't turn into China - environment wise. I really wish these businesses were more "MAKE ENVIRONMENTAL MEASURES MORE COST EFFECTIVE!" and less "REPEAL EVERYTHING!".[/QUOTE] Why? Most of these environmental regulations are useless, and just prevent growth. It's pretty damn bad when a business is halted just because they have to pay extra taxes because they use large vehicles.
I am all for getting rid of outdated regulations, but I don't want all regs repealed because businesses want to be unethical. For instance dumping pollution into the air and water just because it's cheap. I'm not talking about CO2, I'm talking about hazardous chemicals. We need our environment to survive, and should protect it.
[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;28458763]Why? Most of these environmental regulations are useless, and just prevent growth. It's pretty damn bad when a business is halted just because they have to pay extra taxes because they use large vehicles.[/QUOTE] And in a hundred years when things are terrible enviromentally, they'll make no money, awesome idea
[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;28465215]And in a hundred years when things are terrible enviromentally, they'll make no money, awesome idea[/QUOTE] Well, it's that, or we descend into poverty, and things still end up an environmental hell hole, because these regulations prevent nothing, and are just more money in the pockets of politicians. Or, we can have an actually functional budget, that leads to incentives for cleaner industry. [sp]Like that would ever happen.[/sp]
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