Today I take on KY Democrat Congressman John Yarmuth on Conservatism, Poverty, and Lincoln. “Yarmuth wants to build infrastructure to allow business to grow, but ignores the rapidly growing costs of overregulating business and occupational licensing. According to the Small Business Administration, the annual cost to comply with federal regulation in 2010 was 1.75 trillion, with another study putting it at 1.9 trillion in 2013. Supporting complicated federal regulatory regimes, such as the Affordable Care Act and Dodd-Frank Act, stifle business growth and job creation. The problem is significant even on the local level. In the congressman’s home state of Kentucky, it takes 730 days of education and experience to become a licensed auctioneer. Sign-language interpreters must pay a fee of 1,070 for a license. Compare this to the 105 fee and 32 days of experience and education it takes to become a licensed emergency medical technician. To justify the growth of the administrative state, burdensome federal regulation, and a higher minimum wage, the congressman suggests that Lincoln “couldn’t have envisioned the complex problems” facing the country today—as if the Civil War and ending slavery were somehowsimple problems.”
Posted on: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 14:48:09 +0000
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