THE DELICIOUS IRONY OF “DARK MONEY”

http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/t ... ark-money/


"It turns out that the liberal think tank Center for American Progress gets its funding from evil corporations just like everyone else. Among the top donors are multi-national corporations and industries such as Google, Northrop Grumman, and NBCUniversal.

Not a day goes by without some big-government lefty railing about “dark money.”

Just last week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) demanded that corporations reveal which think tanks receive their donations. Warren expressed concern that corporate donors are influencing think tank research.

The Delicious Irony of “Dark Money”
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Photo Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images
The left’s preferred narrative is simple, easy-to-understand and has a ring of truth. It goes like this: Regulation helps consumers but hurts business’ profitability. Individuals give money to big-government organizations to promote regulation. Corporations donate to small-government organizations like Americans for Prosperity, the American Enterprise Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute to fight regulation.

But the fact that corporations also fund big-government organizations raises questions about this narrative. If regulation hurts corporations, why are they funding think tanks which promote it?"

Some regulation helps big corporations? Especially if it smacks your competition.

FredHayek wrote: Some regulation helps big corporations? Especially if it smacks your competition.

Can't be.
The last 11,000 + were the current administration. They hate corporations which are all run by "millionaires and billionaires". Just ask the left. :rofllol

If it were not for millionaires and billionaires who would they hate?

"Under Obama, 11,327 Pages of Federal Regulations Added
September 10, 2012 - 4:28 PM

"Randy Johnson, senior vice president of labor, immigration and employee benefits at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, distributed a handout of a Congressional Research Service analysis of a 2008 study commissioned by the Small Business Administration that estimated the annual compliance price for all federal regulations at $1.7 trillion that year.

Seventy percent of the regulations were economic, accounting for $1.236 trillion of the annual cost. The other regulations were, in order of cost, environment regulations ($281 billion), tax compliance ($160 billion) and occupational safety and health and homeland security ($75 billion).

“I think these kinds of figures, if you put yourself in the place of a business person you’ll find them fairly mindboggling,” Johnson said.

Economists with the Chamber also analyzed the OBM’s report on the study, calculating that if every U.S. household paid an equal share of the federal regulatory burden, it would mean a $15,586 tab for each household in 2008.

Ronald Bird, economist with the USCC, told CNSNews.com that the 7.4 percent increase in pages of regulations during the first three years of the Obama administration is higher than the increase over the first three years of the George W. Bush administration (2001, 2002, and 2003) when the publication grew by 4.4 percent."...

- See more at: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/under-o ... rJO2N.dpuf

BlazerBob wrote: Economists with the Chamber also analyzed the OBM’s report on the study, calculating that if every U.S. household paid an equal share of the federal regulatory burden, it would mean a $15,586 tab for each household in 2008.

- See more at: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/under-o ... rJO2N.dpuf

And what does this mean in real terms? What it means in real terms is that the prices of goods and services are $1.7 Trillion higher than they would be without that regulatory burden. What it means is that the food you buy, the fuel you use, the clothes you wear, the home you live in, the electronics, your health care, all of it has a hidden tax attached to it, that you, not the business is paying, to comply the hundreds of thousands of pages of federal regulations. That's what it means in real terms.

And no, it isn't for clean air and clean water, or safe working conditions or any of the other minor costs of compliance which the study breaks out of the overall figure. The costs associated with complying with those regulations accounts for roughly a third of the overall costs. The other 2/3 of it are taxes and fees, which for a business are a cost, just like raw materials and labor are, that all of us are paying with each and every purchase we make in addition to the income taxes levied to pay for the federal individual welfare programs of Social Security and Medicare and the additional income taxes that are levied to fund the operation of the rest of the individual welfare programs (SNAPS, Section 8, (un)Affordable Care Act, and all the rest) plus the daily operations of the federal government, plus the increasing amount of interest on the bonds sold to the banks that make up the Federal Reserve (monetizing the debt anyone?), other nations (like China), the 1% (who encourage more regulation because it limits competition) and who knows who else to finance the spending spree in Washington D.C.

Hasn't anyone noticed the wierd coincidence between this Union being the world's biggest creditor before the "progressive" era really got rolling and it now being the world's biggest debtor? Of course, you have to believe in coincidence to swallow down that one . . .

Don't forget all the "Bulletins" memos, emails, and press statements that have also been released to bypass the formal regulatory rule process and avoid the "Congressional Review Act" process. I wonder if those are included in the above analysis?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Review_Act