Regulations that hurt business (thesis idea for my wife's research paper)?

[Acala]

Here are a couple specific examples.

How government regulations are putting small-scale meat processors out of business:

http://www.foodrenegade.com/save-sma...aughterhouses/

How government regulations force Americans to buy cars with worse gas mileage:

http://www.hybridcars.com/environmen...ars-25323.html

Idiocy of the FDA highlighted here:

http://articles.latimes.com/1995-12-...ncer-detection

Half the crisis in health care is caused by government restrictions on health care goods and services. You virtually cannot provide ANY health care service without a government permit.

[Barrex]

Well if you give specific example on some regulations in US that are bad I can tell you how it is done in Croatia, BIH and in EU (ERU only in general). Then you can give that to your wife and have her eternla gratitude. Happy time.Great success.

[Lucille]

The government is stealing our jobs!
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...aling-our-jobs!

(http://www.nera.com/index.htm)

What are the biggest offenders in terms of expensive regulations? MAPI, again:

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) imposes the largest number of regulations on the manufacturing sector with respect to number of regulations (972 regulations in total, including 122 major regulations), followed by the Departments of Transportation (880 regulations in total, including 69 major regulations), Labor (214 regulations in total, including 27 major regulations), and Energy (106 regulations in total, including 17 major regulations).

The EPA also imposes the largest regulatory burden on the manufacturing sector with respect to cost of major regulations ($117 billion in constant 2010 dollars), followed by the Departments of Transportation ($25 billion in constant 2010 dollars), Health and Human Services ($10 billion in constant 2010 dollars), and Homeland Security ($7 billion in constant 2010 dollars).

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China isn't stealing jobs and industries from the U.S.; American politicians are pushing them out the door.

[Acala]

Regarding environmental regulations.

When the Federal government set out to address the problem of environmental pollution (a problem that should have and could have been addressed by properly establishing property rights in air, water, etc.) it COULD have simply made it illegal to allow toxic subtances to migrate onto someone else's property. It would have required a few lines of statute and no regulations. Instead, they erected a permitting system whereby prior government permission is required to engage in almost any industrial activity, and a mind-boggling scheme of controls on activities are forced onto people as part of the permitting programs. This is true of the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, RCRA, and others. As a result, huge, permanent government bureaucracies were created and vast numbers of regulations have poured out upon the land. The cost has been staggering.

[gwax23]

The problem with doing a paper on something like Dodd-Frank is that, in order to write a paper on it, she would have to read it herself. What fun is that?

Minimum wage laws increasing labor costs and pricing the lowest skilled labor out of the market, which can prevent them from learning on the job and gaining skills to advance, which could eventually lead to a skilled labor shortage. Probably can't make the case vs. western Europe, though.

Or the subsidizing of one industry causing harm to another, such as import restrictions on steel making auto companies less competitive.

Can you explain "Cant make the case vs western europe though" ?

[Barrex]

Can you explain "Cant make the case vs western europe though" ?

Western Europe got minimum wages laws too.

[carclinic]

Friggin' everything. I'm not any smarter than my employees and I'm sure as hell not better at fixing cars. I just have a lot more patience dealing with sales tax, tire tax, insurances by mandates, license fees, payroll tax, personal income taxes on my S-Corp, health insurance. Regulations enforce that regular people can never open a business, only masochists can. If I could do it all over again, I wouldn't do it. It's not worth it.

[Philhelm]

I *think* the paper needs to involve international business, so it would have to be framed in order to show how certain regulations imposed on U.S. businesses hurts their competitiveness in the global market. I think the EPA regulations would be a good one.

[deadfish]

Gibson Guitar

That story would be perfect, especially if you really research everything about it. Heck, even contact the company and ask if someone would look at some questions for the project.

[Bohner]

OSHA is another good one...



Even though the amount of deaths in the workplace decreased since OSHA's passing, it was declining at the exact same rate even prior.