In the fiscal year 2003 federal budget, President Bush proposed $2.01 trillion in discretionary, entitlement, and interest spending. Although those costs fully encompass the on-budget scope of the federal government, there is considerably more to the reach of the federal government than the sum of the taxes sent to Washington. Federal environmental, safety and health, and economic regulations cost hundreds of billions of dollars every year -- on top of official federal outlays.
The exact cost of federal regulations can never be fully known. But governmental and private data exist on scores of regulations and the agencies that issue them, as well as on regulatory costs and benefits -- all of which can be compiled in a way that makes the regulatory state more comprehensible to the public.
Clyde Wayne Crews Jr.
Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. examines "new economy" regulatory issues including antitrust policy, privacy, "spam" and intellectual property; competition policy issues such as alternatives to mandatory "open access" in network industry structures; and various Internet governance issues. He is the author of the annual report, Ten Thousand Commandments: A Policymaker's Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State. Crews' writing has been published in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Journal of Commerce, Washington Times, Consumer's Research, Insight, Electricity Journal, Policy Sciences, the Journal of Regulation and Social Costs. He has made media appearances on PBS, Fox News Channel, CNN, CNBC and Voice of America. Crews is the Vice President for Regulatory Policy and Director of Technology Studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Earlier, he was Director of Technology Policy at The Cato Institute, Director of Competition and Regulation Policy at the Competititive Enterprise Institute, a legislative aide to Sen. Phil Gramm on regulatory and welfare reform issues, an economist and policy analyst at Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation, an economist at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and a research assistant at the Center for the Study of Public Choice at George Mason University. He holds a master's of business administration from the College of William and Mary and a bachelor's degree in business administration from Lander College in Greenwood, S.C. Crews is a member of the editorial board of www.antitrust.org, and runs the Web site www.hyperfamily.com. Crews is married with three children.
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Category: Civics
Format: Book (Paperback) (36)
Publisher: Cato Institute
Date Published: Mar 01, 2002
Language: English
ISBN: 9781930865365
SKU: LT-2430
Dimensions: 8.50 x 11.00 x 0.25 (in)
Weight: 5.10 oz