Scott Rasmussen's Number of the Day for November 30, 2018
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November 30, 2018: If it were your full-time job, it would take three years, 108 days, and four hours to read all the federal regulations currently on the books. That assumes you read at 250 words per minute and stay on task for 40 hours a week with just two weeks off for vacation each year.[1]
According to the Mercatus Center study, that’s a dramatic increase in regulation over the past several decades. In 1970, you could have read all the federal regulations in about a year.
Earlier Numbers of the Day also highlighted the enormous growth of the regulatory state in recent decades. After adjusting for inflation, the federal budget for regulatory agencies is nine times as high as it was in 1970—a current total of $70 billion. The nation currently has 283,996 federal regulators. That’s twice as many as in 1990 and five times as many as in 1960.
Each weekday, Scott Rasmussen’s Number of the Day explores interesting and newsworthy topics at the intersection of culture, politics, and technology.
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