Bad for business
Commentary
The Great Regulation Charade
September 20, 2011
Cry Wolf Quotes
[This package of bills is] superfluous and entirely unnecessary and is a menace to our business.
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Charles E. Abbott, representing the Wholesale Bakers’ Association. Only date available: 1913.
High energy costs, like taxes, just make New Jersey a tougher state in which to do business. This is not a partisan issue, it’s just a bad deal for New Jersey.
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Philip Kirschner, president of the New Jersey Business & Industry Association, represents 22,000 employers in the state.
If my company were compelled to raise all of our female rates in this plant to the male rates in question, it would seriously jeopardize the competitive position of this plant with its competitors located in other states employing all females in these jobs.
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Jerry N. Markham, director of industrial relations, Thatcher Glass Manufacturing Company, Testimony, House Hearing.
These [ergonomics] regulations would cost employers, large and small, billions of dollars annually while providing uncertain benefits.
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White House budget office, under the Bush administration. Wall Street Journal.
