Senator Richard Burr introduced a bill that would merge the Department of Energy and the EPA. The reasoning for this conflation is to cut cost at the federal level:
Burr, R-N.C., said the merger would result in $3 billion in savings next year, but critics counter that such a move would weaken the government's role in protecting the environment.Burr introduced the bill Thursday. It has 16 co-sponsors, all Republicans. Burr acknowledged Monday that the bill doesn't have a good chance being heard in committee, a required for step for it to reach the full Senate. The best chance for the bill would be for someone in the House to propose a similar bill, he said.
Burr said he filed the bill in response to a report from the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform's recommendation to shrink the size of the federal workforce
I have a better idea. Why don’t we abolish both of these agencies? These two departments are responsible for costing both businesses and Americans billions of dollars a year in burdensome regulations. NewsMax reported the cost of doing business in today’s America:
That staggering figure comes courtesy of Wayne Crews, policy vice president at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, who scrutinized the 81,405 pages of the Federal Registry. That catalog chronicles the nation’s regulations on businesses and state and local governments.
Crews' report, titled Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State, contends that government regulations cost the economy $1.75 trillion in 2008.
Of course the nanny staters believe that the abolition of these two oppressive agencies would mean that businesses would have a free reign on polluting our air and water. To them Americans would live in squalor without their constant oversight.
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