“Using official government sources, the National Federation of Independent Business calculates there are more than 4,000 federal rules in the pipeline, and that just the 13 biggest ones would, if imposed in an Obama second term, cost businesses a total of more than $515 billion over four years.” [Investor’s Business Daily]
It won’t matter much once the runaway inflation hits. We’ll segue directly from “USA” to “Greece” to “Zimbabwe” in a matter of months.
I’ll bet you a White House beer that Obama has people willing to testify before Congress that the benefits of the regs are like way much bigger than these costs, which are actually quite small anyway when these days serious money is measured in trillion$.