Costs will rise
Cry Wolf Quotes
[Automakers stated that the treaty would] increase gas prices 50 cents a gallon, boost the price of electricity 20 percent and raise the cost of making cars.
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BLIND SPOT: THE BIG THREE’S ATTACK ON THE GLOBAL WARMING TREATY, from the The Environmental Working Group.
[Sprinkler systems are a] cumbersome and costly apparatus.
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Three weeks before the Triangle conflagration, the Protective League of Property Owners's counsel, Pendleton Dudley responds to Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo order that sprinklers should be installed in a number of warehouses. Only date available: March, 1911.
Any time the government is mandating something and creates an extra burden on business, it becomes another regulatory tax and raises costs.
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Steve Caughran, owner of a printing shop outside Fresno, California, The New York Times.
But the governors of Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York and Vermont are still in the compact, ready to impose a heavy economic burden on their citizens.
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From “Ungreening Mitt Romney”, by Robert Novak.
Evidence
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Regulations at Work: Five Rules that Save Workers’ Lives and Protect their Health
This paper looks at five worker-safety regulations that were tremendously successful in reducing employee injuries, illnesses and fatalities.
