{"id":17847,"date":"2013-05-02T20:06:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T00:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=17847"},"modified":"2013-05-02T21:38:09","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T01:38:09","slug":"obama%e2%80%99s-regulatory-legacy-to-date-131-new-major-regs-totaling-70b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/17847\/obama%e2%80%99s-regulatory-legacy-to-date-131-new-major-regs-totaling-70b\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s Regulatory Legacy To Date: 131 New Major Regs Totaling $70B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the first half of President Barack Obama\u2019s regulatory legacy behind us, the folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2013\/05\/02\/new-red-tape-rising-report-regulation-in-obamas-first-term\/?utm_source=Email&amp;utm_medium=Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=FreeMarketFocus \" target=\"_blank\">Heritage tallied up the cost thus far<\/a> \u2013 131 new major regulations totaling $70 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Major regulations are those imposing a cost on the economy of at least $100 million or more each year.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, the two biggest profit-killers were (1) a joint EPA-Dept. of Transportation rule to boost fuel-economy standards that will result in an average new price increase of $1,800.00, and (2) an EPA Utility MACT regulation designed to shut down coal plants by making it cost prohibitive to meet new emissions standards.<\/p>\n<p>On deck are the literally hundreds of regulations spawned by ObamaCare and the Dodd-Frank financial reform law. Since those are still working their way through the bureaucracy, it\u2019s too early to estimate what their financial impact will be. One this is certain, though; they won\u2019t be cheap.<\/p>\n<p>Get a copy of the entire report, Red Tape Rising, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2013\/05\/02\/new-red-tape-rising-report-regulation-in-obamas-first-term\/?utm_source=Email&amp;utm_medium=Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=FreeMarketFocus \" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the first half of President Barack Obama\u2019s regulatory legacy behind us, the folks at Heritage tallied up the cost thus far \u2013 131 new major regulations totaling $70 billion. Major regulations are those imposing a cost on the economy of at least $100 million or more each year. In 2012, the two biggest profit-killers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,1138,19,3944,4125,300],"class_list":["post-17847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-bureaucracy","tag-economy","tag-heritage","tag-red-tape","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17847"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17861,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17847\/revisions\/17861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}