{"id":27674,"date":"2018-03-06T12:40:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T17:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=27674"},"modified":"2018-03-06T12:40:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T17:40:33","slug":"regulate-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=27674","title":{"rendered":"Regulate Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You will be shocked to learn that the benefits of government regulations far exceed the cost of those regulations. Or so says the OMB:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/energy-and-environment\/2018\/3\/6\/17077330\/trump-regulatory-agenda-omb\">OMB gathered data<\/a> and analysis on \u201cmajor\u201d federal regulations (those with $100 million or more in economic impact) between 2006 and 2016, a period that includes all of Obama\u2019s administration, stopping just short of Trump\u2019s. The final tally, reported in 2001 dollars:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aggregate benefits: $219 to $695 billion\n<li>Aggregate costs: $59 to $88 billion\n<\/ul>\n<p>By even the most conservative estimate, the benefits of Obama\u2019s regulations wildly outweighed the costs.<\/p>\n<p>According to OMB \u2014 and to the federal agencies upon whose data OMB mostly relied \u2014 the core of the Trumpian case against Obama regulations, arguably the organizing principle of Trump\u2019s administration, is false. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You will be shocked to learn that the benefits of government regulations far exceed the cost of those regulations. Or so says the OMB: OMB gathered data and analysis on \u201cmajor\u201d federal regulations (those with $100 million or more in economic impact) between 2006 and 2016, a period that includes all of Obama\u2019s administration, stopping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27675,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27674\/revisions\/27675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}