Obama EPA needs $21 billion new taxpayer dollars to process paperwork and regulations

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And up to 230,000 more non-productive public sector union workers to do paperwork.

9/26/11, "EPA: Regulations would require 230,000 new employees, $21 billion," Daily Caller, Matthew Boyle

"“While EPA acknowledges that come 2016, the administrative burdens may still be so great that compliance … may still be absurd or impossible to administer at that time, that does not mean that the Agency is not moving toward the statutory thresholds,” the EPA wrote in a September 16 court briefing.

The EPA is asking taxpayers to fund up to 230,000 new government workers to process all the extra paperwork, at an estimated cost of $21 billion. That cost

• does not include the economic impact of the regulations themselves.

“Hiring the 230,000 full-time employees necessary to produce the 1.4 billion work hours required to address the actual increase in permitting functions would result in an increase in Title V administration

• costs of $21 billion per year,” the EPA wrote in the court brief."...

via Hot Air, Climate Depot