Little-Acorn
10-11-2011, 03:16 PM
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Just ask them!
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http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/say-it-i-will-never-again-be-an-employer-131412573.html
Say it: 'I will never again be an employer'
by Vin Suprynowicz
Posted: Oct. 9, 2011 | 2:03 a.m.
Updated: Oct. 9, 2011 | 9:32 a.m.
There are alien abduction and crop circle websites. There are websites that argue the Holocaust and the moon missions were faked. And now, at www.propublica.org/blog/item/whats-the-evidence-that-regulations-kill-jobs (http://www.propublica.org/blog/item/whats-the-evidence-that-regulations-kill-jobs), you can read about how regulation doesn't cost jobs, because all jobs lost in the regulated industries are replaced by new and better jobs in the regulatory agencies riding herd over them.
"The effects on jobs are negligible" from government regulations, explains Richard Morgenstern, who served in the EPA from the Reagan to Clinton years and is now at Resources for the Future, described here as "a nonpartisan think tank."
"They're not job-creating or job-destroying on average," he explains.
Almost a decade ago, we're informed, Mr. Morgenstern and some colleagues published research on the effects of regulation using 10 years worth of Census data on four different polluting industries. They found that when new environmental regulation was applied, "higher production costs pushed up prices, resulting in lost sales for businesses and some lost jobs, but the job losses were also offset by new jobs created in pollution abatement."
Wow! So if we keep regulating and regulating until any given industry has seen its work force and profitability reduced by 90 percent, it won't matter because we'll now have 90 regulators to regulate each 10 remaining workers, leaving the jobs picture the same!
...read more at link.
Just ask them!
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http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/say-it-i-will-never-again-be-an-employer-131412573.html
Say it: 'I will never again be an employer'
by Vin Suprynowicz
Posted: Oct. 9, 2011 | 2:03 a.m.
Updated: Oct. 9, 2011 | 9:32 a.m.
There are alien abduction and crop circle websites. There are websites that argue the Holocaust and the moon missions were faked. And now, at www.propublica.org/blog/item/whats-the-evidence-that-regulations-kill-jobs (http://www.propublica.org/blog/item/whats-the-evidence-that-regulations-kill-jobs), you can read about how regulation doesn't cost jobs, because all jobs lost in the regulated industries are replaced by new and better jobs in the regulatory agencies riding herd over them.
"The effects on jobs are negligible" from government regulations, explains Richard Morgenstern, who served in the EPA from the Reagan to Clinton years and is now at Resources for the Future, described here as "a nonpartisan think tank."
"They're not job-creating or job-destroying on average," he explains.
Almost a decade ago, we're informed, Mr. Morgenstern and some colleagues published research on the effects of regulation using 10 years worth of Census data on four different polluting industries. They found that when new environmental regulation was applied, "higher production costs pushed up prices, resulting in lost sales for businesses and some lost jobs, but the job losses were also offset by new jobs created in pollution abatement."
Wow! So if we keep regulating and regulating until any given industry has seen its work force and profitability reduced by 90 percent, it won't matter because we'll now have 90 regulators to regulate each 10 remaining workers, leaving the jobs picture the same!
...read more at link.