Ten Thousand Commandments: The Day's Decrees

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What they say ...

"The indispensable Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute."

"Trump vs. The Blizzard"

Wall Street Journal

"As the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Clyde Wayne Crews shows in his invaluable annual survey of the federal regulatory state, we have become the regulation nation almost imperceptibly."

--Niall Ferguson

"The Regulated States of America"

Wall Street Journal

(Headline) "Trump’s team has detected the ‘dark matter’ of government regulation, meaning you ain’t seen nothing yet."

--Fred Barbash

Washington Post

"This is important work because politicians and the media treat regulation as a largely cost-free public good. Mr. Crews knows better."

"Regulator Without Peer"

--Wall Street Journal

"Since Mr. Obama doesn't want to accurately assess the costs of these rules, we'll rely on Mr. Crews."

--"Red Tape Record Breakers: A new study puts the cost of regulation at $14,768 per household"

Wall Street Journal

"What CEI has done has helped shine a bright light on that darker part of government. They have put a face to the faceless bureaucracy. Ten Thousand Commandments does a fantastic job of highlighting that hidden tax among us--that of the regulatory state...."

--Rep. Paul Ryan

"Laws Gone Wild? Drowning In Regulations"

--Barrons

"...As you can see, Ten Thousand Commandments is well worth perusing by anyone concerned with the regulatory state and the implications of these rules for citizens and constituents."

--Sen. Rand Paul

"Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute has recently published his “Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State.” This year’s 20th-anniversary edition notes that regulation, the “hidden tax,” costs almost $2 trillion not counted among the official federal outlays."

--George Will

Washington Post

“A Think-Tank Tenet: Thou Shalt Hold Congress Accountable.”

--Washington Post

“Clyde Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute concludes regulatory costs are out of control. He’s right.”

--The Regulatory Hydra

Investor’s Business Daily

"[The] Competitive Enterprise Institute's Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State shows how the American people suffer when Congress delegates it constitutional power to create laws to unelected federal bureaucrats."

--Ron Paul

"Calling for a Real Stimulus: Naturally, it would have to be deregulatory, Wayne Crews style."

--Doug Bandow

The American Spectator

"Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Alexis de Tocqueville, author of the classic Democracy in America, were born in different times and places. But the French aristocrat and American think tanker have the measure of the federal behemoth in the age of Obama. Writing in 1835, Tocqueville eloquently predicted how it would function, while Crews today supplies in his annual compilation of federal rules and regulations, “10,000 Commandments,” the hard numbers that describe the behemoth's contemporary reach and costs."

Mark Tapscott

"The 'soft despotism' of regulation imposes high costs on Americans"

--Washington Examiner

A CEI Project

Regulatory Dark Matter (2017 Ed.)

Framing an "Abuse-of-Crisis Prevention Act" to Confine Washington

Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. bio.

Regulation Snapshots

Friday, December 30, 2016

The Day's Decrees

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What they say ...

Get Ten Thousand Commandments Here

1-pager: Unmeasured Costs of the Administrative State

Tip of the Costberg (2017 Ed.)

Costberg's Numbers