Our friends at Unleash Prosperity Hotline, issue #829 (8/4/2023 week-end edition) provided an excellent graph, showing how well Trump slashed regs versus the horrific regs burdens under Obama and Biden. The study comes recently from Casey Mulligan at the University of Chicago.
“Politico reports the regulators are just getting started. The Department of Labor, the National Labor Relations Board and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission are separately preparing a wish list of new regulations. ‘It’s coming, and it’s coming in a big way’, says Ed Egee, a VP at the National Retail Foundation.”
“The Labor Department is preparing to make unions happy to toughen enforcement of the Davis-Bacon law that mandates union wages on federal projects. New rules are being readied to expand overtime pay requirements for millions of workers and to make it much harder for firms to classify workers as independent contractors instead of employees. That will almost certainly lead to less hiring. The administration is also trying to find a way to pass the so-called ‘Pro Act’ that would outlaw right-to-work laws in 28 states.”
Unleash continues, “here’s a good way to stop the regulatory onslaught. Cut the budgets for the regulatory octopus in D.C. And use the Congressional Review Act after the 2024 elections to stop the regulationss from taking effect.”
