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Show Th Paper That Dam To Take A Stand October 28, 1976 The Utah Independent Page 11 A WELCOME OFFER OF vorking, and, as a result, is producing Continued from page ASSISTANCE 1 60,000 pages, including 7.000 Although the port of Boston in the vessel, we were glad of an op- was closed 10 all shaping, many portunity of furthering to you a towns throuShout the colonies part of their benevolent intentions. pledged aid-- as in this letter from We flatter ourselves the good amend-irtificia- lly high prices and excessive ments to previous regulations and 3,000 rover nmental red tape. other regulatory documents. In 1974, according to one report, the In 1976 the FEDERAL REGISTER is 404 of 1aws. Congress, ongress passed expected to contain weU over 50,000 , including more than 25,000 separate scourse, is the only agency of the federal government legally empowered by the Insulations And, as Congressman Elliott H.Levitas jeople through the U.S. Constitution to . has pointed out: In most instances, a . inflrt'lflM Blit a ' T tt TjiOTW1,rk consequence of violating these admin- n i r7i rlf 0Veml)er istrative rules is imprisonment or fine .975, issue Of the UTAH INDEPENDENT. or both. he regulatory agencies of the Executive tranch enacted 7,496 laws These are ppoFBi? WfULATOBS ailed regulations, but they are not A glut Of bureaucratic paperwork and ules relating to the management of the arious agencies themselves but are rules regulation is suffocating American private nforced upon the Citizens of this country enterprise, A study of the inflationary effect of vith the force of law. Percentage-wis- e, be 404 law enacted by the Congress federal regulatory teterfewnce ly the institute only slightly over 5 of the American Enterprise Institute In 1975 otal laws, with the remaining 95 being reported that federal regulations and con-trols will cost consumers more than jnacted by unelected bureaucrats. The result of this situation is that $238 billion in higher prices during this 1 huge fourth level of government, decade alone. - these regulatory A direct cost' consumers pay every agencies are de- cribed by Congressman Steve Symms, day when buying products is the cost is been established which consists of imposed by the growing government paper- that is, the expensive huge bureaucracy with raw, dictatorial work burden and wers over the people. process businesses -- thg coioniesMryldJr??w' defiant help PeoPle Pro-wh- o in general discovered a hearty di- town survive the restriction in position to sympathy in your trade and the subsequent oc- - grievances, will generously con- tribute, according to their articles, cupation by British troops. to maintain and support every To Committee of Correspondence sufferer in your and their common in the Town of Boston. cause. If we can be in the least Aug. 4, 1774 instrumental in furthering any con- tributions made in favor of your Gentlemen, of Committee of the order inhabitants, it will give us the most By Correspondence for this Town, we sincere pleasure and some op- have shipped on board the sloop portunity of exercising the grateful America, Perkins Allen, master, sense of many obligations which, thrcc thousand bushels of corn, as individuals, we are under to flou two wcnty !?rrcl of pcoptc1 f.of. y.0UI Province. We are, barrels of pork and our Gentlemen, your most brethre,thedistteM(!diI1habiunt, humble servants, 0f your Town, being in virtue of a subscription raised by the Saml and Robt Purviance inhabitants of Baltimore Town, on that account. Reprinted Jrom Pitney Bowes in the bill of lading for said brochure, How utters Helped articles is also included one unite states. of America". thousand bushels of corn, which we have purchased and shipped for thc samc account on thc strength nJo time-consum- ing 1 S 7 S TheXKMMD (V.) HEWS LEADER, an editorial on June 19, 1975, had applications, completing questionnaires, wUch.ntbninofthdrcom- to orders and and directives, appealing in the courts from other rulings and regulatory opinions. Such mountains of paperwork are a particularly costly burden for small businesses. For example, a firm emreplytag should assured to u, when thcir collection, are made. As there was spare room mittee services that maintain 8,000 separate records systems. Just to print a list of these requires 3,000 pages of close-s- et type in the, FEDERAL REGISTER ploying not more than 50 people is required to fill out as many as 75 to 80 ac- different types of government Goverament waste and inefficiency are cording to the Senate Select forms, Committee . said to cost U.S. taxpayers .$130 billion 0 forms a year. The source of that statement is on Some,lthese k filled out a year, a gruup of 0.6. Senators -- - barely a others must be completed for each dozen 'in all who are .waging a war against terrific odds on Capitol Hill. emPloyee December 13, 1975, issue of Senator Paul Fannin says the $130 HUMAN EVENTS M. Stanton Evans stated: billion includes both direct and indirect costs ti consumers. Fannin and his fellow Americans must fork over somewaste-fightblame the mammoth loss thing like $40 billion a year just to on bureaucrats, red tape and excessive pay the bills for federal paper- Senator William Proxmire in an article which appeared in THE NEWS of Lynchburg, Va., on March 12, 1976, stated that individuals and business firms , by a conservative estimate, spend 130.5 million man-hou- rs per year filling out all of the federal report forms. This estimate is in addition to the .millions of hours spent on such reporting tasks as the Internal Revenue Service tax forms. ers regulation. Senator James B. Allen declares: The taxpayers of this country are provisioning a large army of In concluding the aforementioned article in shuffling. About $18 billion of this is absorbed by businesses that must clared: fill out the forms, while another $15 to $18 billion is absorbed by the environmental regulation; and aJX?$l5 billion or so for health, safety and prod- - ' ,feef - stad4lu? the problem keeps on growing. uet regulation " In 1965 there were 3,803 different federal Federal civilian employment has grown orms; 1971 there were 5,298; by jy estimated from 2.5 to 2.8 million in a decade, that there are up- jg jj and while nobody seems to know for sure wards g.ooo. According to Evans, how many people are involved in regulatory These forms are generated by some efforts, the number is prodigious. In its 3,500 government bureaus, agencies, and June 30, 1975, issue, U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT estimated the number of federal employees with regulatory functions at 63,444. However, a computation by the Office of Management and Budget puts the figure even higher 100,980. These are the bureaucrats who harass U.S. moncitizens with unflagging zeal itoring, inspecting, demanding, for- THE INDEPENDENT AMERICAN P.O. Box 636 Littleton, Colorado 80120 Please send me . bidding. Rules and regulations promulgated by federal agencies are published on a daily basis in the FEDERAL REGISTER. According to Senator J. Glenn Beall, the FEDERAL REGISTER for 1975 contains Payment of $ . 1 NOTE DISCOUNTS FOR QUANTITY ORDERS 25 copies $1.50 copy $18.75 5 copies - $4.50 50 copies 10 copies - $8.25 100 copies - $67.50 $36.00 .copies of The Federal Monster by Phoebe Courtney (160 pages, paperback, indexed) .is enclosed. (Please send check or money order) Mrs. Mr. Street City and State de- run their own businesses, to set their own prices and demand their own wages. The unelected federal regulators now. exercise almost unrestrained powers over who pay their American taxpayers salaries. Where can this all lead but to a federal dictatorship where all personal freedom has been destroyed? And it has been planned that way as will be seen in for a long time the following chapter and the balance oi this book. four andj one- PS1 ?,tes "urnlng of ubi0 J011 Evans What the paperwork explosion most clearly signifies is that the federal government is out of control, that it has become so large and so instrusive that it is burying us all in its bureaucratic impositions. The American people are losing the freedom to conduct their own affairs, to government in printing, processing over-zealo- us and filing costs. (These were data federal regulators a couple of years ago; the Paperof as whose influence on everyone's work Commission says they have life and pocketbook has become perrisen since and rounds the total off vasive at $40 billion.) The $130 billion a year loss, Allen Evans then went onto say that Washing- points out, amounts to about $2,000 per ton generates up to 50 forms each year family per year. . ... for every man, woman and child in the , p1,m breakdown: $45 to $60 bllllonfor economic regulation; another $50 to $60 HUMAN EVENTS, Zip Code |