Saturday, August 25, 2012

Sen. Portman: Obama’s ‘Regulatory Cliff’ As Bad As Fiscal One Read more: Sen. Portman: Obama’s ‘Regulatory Cliff’ As Bad As Fiscal One

The Obama administration is steering the country toward a steep “regulatory cliff” that could exacerbate the damage the so-called fiscal cliff will cause, according to Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio.

“After three years of bureaucratic excess, the Obama administration has been quietly postponing several multibillion-dollar regulations until after the November election,” Portman writes in The Wall Street Journal.

“Those delayed rules, together with more than 130 unfinished mandates under the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial law, could significantly increase the regulatory drag on our economy in 2013.”

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For example, Portman points to a regulation the Labor Department is working on that would make the cost of retirement planning for middle-class workers increase in order to “protect” them from free investment help.

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