{"id":21342,"date":"2014-08-20T12:26:51","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T16:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=21342"},"modified":"2014-08-20T12:26:51","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T16:26:51","slug":"paul-ryan-regulations-hurt-the-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/21342\/paul-ryan-regulations-hurt-the-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Ryan: Regulations Hurt the Poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conservatives typically \u2013 and correctly \u2013 fault the regulatory state for increasing the cost of doing business and impeding job creation. But what about the argument that businesses don\u2019t pay taxes (or regulatory fees), people do?<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/215486-paul-ryan-opens-new-front-in-war-on-poverty \" target=\"_blank\">making a powerful case<\/a> that the two go together in a way that could reduce the government\u2019s footprint and decrease poverty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe regulatory part of Ryan\u2019s anti-poverty plan goes after \u2018regressive\u2019 federal rules \u2013 those that have an outsize economic impact on low-income households,\u201d reports The Hill. \u201cSupporters of his plan say regulations are ultimately borne by ordinary consumers and households who pay extra when new restrictions are piled on to the products and services they use. The poor end up spending a greater share of their income to cover the added expense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The argument that regulations are regressive \u2013 that they take a bigger bite out of a poor family\u2019s budget than anyone else\u2019s \u2013 is an especially attractive one to liberals such as Cass Sunstein, the former chief of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama White House.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloombergview.com\/articles\/2014-07-28\/the-poor-need-ryan-s-regulation-reform \" target=\"_blank\">recent column<\/a>, Sunstein said Ryan\u2019s regulatory reforms \u201cpoint in helpful directions, and they suggest the possibility of bipartisan cooperation on some important questions.\u201d Among these is taking into consideration the human cost of regulations on a segment of society that can least afford it.<\/p>\n<p>To be sure, neither Ryan nor Sunstein advocate eliminating all regulations, and how they would implement such reforms would likely differ substantially. Still, the fact that a well-known, serious conservative and his liberal counterpart see common ground on pulling back government and lifting up the poor is a development worth watching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservatives typically \u2013 and correctly \u2013 fault the regulatory state for increasing the cost of doing business and impeding job creation. But what about the argument that businesses don\u2019t pay taxes (or regulatory fees), people do? Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is making a powerful case that the two go together in a way that could [&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":[2730,802,2098,1447,300],"class_list":["post-21342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-cass-sunstein","tag-paul-ryan","tag-poverty","tag-reform","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21342","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=21342"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21350,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21342\/revisions\/21350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}