Job-killing regulations. How many times have we heard this rhetoric from big businesses opposing new regulations while pretending that they are concerned about small businesses? Yet polls of small business owners find that most understand the need for regulations. I outlined the results of one of these recent polls in an opinion editorial in The …
Efforts to blame regulations for the economy have been raging for quite a while in Congress and on the campaign trails. Clearly the rhetoric of “job-killing regulations” has been used by partisans to score political points. And just as clearly small businesses, as seen in most polling, have said regulations are not holding them back …
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South Carolina Congressman Mick Mulvaney held a field hearing in Rock Hill, SC, yesterday titled “Caught Up in Red Tape: The Impact of Federal Regulations on Small Businesses and Contractors”. Mr. Mulvaney is the Chairman of the Small Business Subcommittee on Contracting and Workforce. I wasn’t able to attend the meeting but did have a …
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There are approximately 12,600 registered lobbyists in Washington (including one of the newest– Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia’s son Eugene). Spending on lobbying activities last year was about $3.3 billion according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Much of all this lobbying power has recently been aimed at convincing our elected and non-elected officials that …
BloombergApril 3, 2012 By Deborah Solomon The phrase “job-killing regulation” has become a standard part of the political lexicon this campaign season, most often used to disparage President Barack Obama‘s energy and environmental policies. But a new report suggests we ought to take claims of regulatory-related unemployment with a grain of salt. The Institute for …
Two recent news stories have challenged the universal belief that small businesses are the job creators. An AP story on February 17 was titled, “The Truth is That Small Businesses Are Not Good At Creating Jobs.” Seven days later a New York Times story’s heading said, “Small Companies Create More Jobs? Maybe Not”. But before …
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What federal regulations have been enacted in the last three years that have been documented to have killed jobs? That was the question I asked a Washington Post reporter yesterday when she called. She was doing a story on the U.S. Chamber’s complaint about “job-killing” regulations. In response to my question she said that all she …
