Biden/Harris Regulations Amount to Costs of Nearly $50,000 Per Family

The only people would vote for the moochers and looters raping the American taxpayer are those benefiting from it in one way or another and brainwashed morons, of course.

The Trump administration cut regulatory costs on the poor. The Biden administration raised them—massively.

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A Regulatory Onslaught

The Biden administration’s policies amount to lifetime costs of nearly $50,000 per family.

By: City Journal, August 2024:

Under President Barack Obama, the U.S. government’s regulatory activity in areas like health care, the Internet, environment, and transportation was unprecedented. The hundreds of new regulations that resulted cost the average household roughly $26,000 over a lifetime, according to my new study for Unleash Prosperity, which uses a database of more than 5,000 federal rules. By contrast, the deregulatory focus of Obama’s successor, Donald Trump, wound up saving the average family about $11,000 in lifetime cost burdens. The regulatory pendulum swung back, though, with Joe Biden’s administration. To some extent, this was to be expected, as Democrats are more inclined to regulatory mandates than Republicans. But who would have expected the Biden administration to regulate with such a vengeance? I calculate a lifetime per family burden of $47,000 from Biden’s new regulations.

The Biden regulations are also highly regressive, with low-income households bearing a large cost as a share of their income. The poor pay seven times more when adjusting for their ability to pay.

A prime example is the Department of Transportation’s expensive new fuel economy standards on new cars, SUVs, and trucks. Together with emissions requirements from the Environmental Protection Agency, new vehicles are expected to cost $3,400 more than they would under the standards set by the Trump administration.

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The study confirms one of the best-kept secrets in the economics of government rulemaking: that regulation’s costs fall disproportionately on the poor. Regulators too often impose champagne taste on beer budgets.

The current administration regulated dozens of other necessities, such as Internet service, household appliances, nursing homes, electricity, health insurance, and of course fossil fuels. The costs of new federal rules are more regressive than any of the major monetary taxes levied by federal, state, and local governments.

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