Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Heritage Foundation: Regulate Nothing

So the Heritage Foundation wants Darrell Issa to investigate regulations. Not some regulations. Basically everything for the last few decades. Some of their list:
Individual health insurance mandate
Employer health insurance mandate
Minimum health insurance benefit standards
All future Consumer Financial Protection Bureau regulations
Limiting debit card fees
Transparency for shareholders
Credit card regulation
Incandescent light bulb phase out
Broader energy efficiency standards
Fuel efficiency standards
Carbon pollution regulation
Auto tailpipe standard
Renewable fuel standards
Low-income housing promotion
Corporate accounting requirements
Net neutrality
Corporate media ownership rules
Dairy price controls
Domestic sugar subsidization
If you want the whole list, it's here. Sure, some of these make sense. I mean, domestic sugar subsidization? Really? But for the few on this list that could be dropped, look at the other, scary things they want to do. Get rid of fuel efficiency standards? Corporate media ownership rules? Minimum health insurance benefit standards? Credit card regulation? These are things that greatly help the American people. They are also necessary. It is scary and dangerous that a group like the Heritage Foundation would want to wage an assault on them. It's ideology at it's scariest worst. It only furthers the image that the Republican Party simply exists to carry out the whims of business.

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