House Republicans Just Let The Cat Out Of The Bag

[applegrove]

House Republicans Just Let The Cat Out Of The Bag

by Zach Carter at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/18/house-republicans-budget_n_6894998.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

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WASHINGTON -- Since taking control of the House in 2010, Republicans have crafted dozens of bills ostensibly devoted to "streamlining and simplifying" the federal government. They've pushed them through the lower chamber, promising to cut red tape and create jobs. But on Tuesday, they let the cat out of the bag. These bills, it turns out, are essentially efforts to undermine Wall Street reform and Obamacare while greenlighting pollution.

Much of the House GOP's jobs package is devoted to legislation requiring various forms of "cost-benefit analysis" on new regulations. Critics, however, have repeatedly noted that agencies already have to perform a host of economic impact assessments before making rules. They argue that these bills are really only interested in emphasizing costs. The benefits of regulations, after all, tend to be longer-term and hard to quantify, while costs are relatively easy to figure out. When you curb pollution and give people access to health insurance, it saves lives -- something far more difficult to assign a dollar value than the upfront costs to corporate interests.

"The House GOP budget enacts radical and extreme 'regulatory reform' measures that are better termed 'deregulatory reform,'" Amit Narang, regulatory policy advocate for the nonprofit group Public Citizen, told The Huffington Post this week. "If these measures were to become law, the public could expect... inaction on climate change and another Wall Street meltdown."

House Republicans posted their budget bill Tuesday, and it includes a "statement of policy" -- see page 123, Section 810 -- that makes the critics' points for them. It decries the "468,500 pages" of new regulations the Obama administration has promulgated, and claims that regulatory efforts are running up an annual $2.03 trillion tab on the public. There is no mention of any benefits, economic or otherwise, that have accrued from any rule.



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[applegrove]

1. I swear the thinkers in the GOP want pollution and wealth inequality to cull the herd when science

discovers the cure to aging. That way only the super rich will be able to afford all the science necessary to live through pollution and forever. Of course they need more money. They and their whole family are going to live for hundreds of years.

[PowerToThePeople]

3. All the expensive scientific advances they will be able to afford

will not cure guillotine.

[applegrove]

4. The guillotine is nothing to aspire to. Those were horrid times in France.

And not just for the rich.

[PowerToThePeople]

5. I would rather avoid such a future too.

It is not my path that leads that direction, but the current Republican/Capitalist path that has historically lead there.

[applegrove]

6. It will never come to that.

[PowerToThePeople]

7. never

didn't your mom teach you

"Never say never."

(I can't get a good meme, search just pulls up trash pop music shite.)

[jeff47]

12. That's what the French aristocracy thought in 1788. (nt)

[Thinkingabout]

2. Setting up the 2016 GOP platform.

[freshwest]

8. Expect no less from the GOP (Greedy Obnoxious Patricians)

[Spitfire of ATJ]

9. Wall Street didn't "melt down". It cashed in.

[Panich52]

10. A rather open secret. And I surely include clean water & safe working conditions as 'benefits'

[Major Hogwash]

11. It's time for President Obama to wear the tan suit again.

The Rethuglicans liked it so much the first time!!