Speaking of which:
The Environmental Protection Agency has said new greenhouse gas regulations, as proposed, may be “absurd” in application and “impossible to administer” by its self-imposed 2016 deadline. But the agency is still asking for taxpayers to shoulder the burden of up to 230,000 new bureaucrats — at a cost of $21 billion — to attempt to implement the rules.
Gee, I can think of a way to save the taxpayers $21B. And millions of jobs.
Hey, that would be 230,000 new jobs the government created. 😉
At the expense of millions of real private sector jobs…
Drop kick Dept of Ed, instant trillion-ish dollar reduction over ten years. I suspect most DoEd non-retirement eligible employees in this scenario would be transferred to other cabinet depts so their payroll would be moved rather than eliminated, but still worth it at the price.
@Larry J: True dat.
But the agency is still asking for taxpayers to shoulder the burden of up to 230,000 new bureaucrats — at a cost of $21 billion — to attempt to implement the rules.
Reality is precisely the opposite. The DOJ is asking the Court of Appeals to let the EPA focus their enforcement efforts on the largest greenhouse gas emitters. To strengthen the argument for that approach, they claim that the alternative — regulating 6 million different emission sources — would require as many as 230,000 new employees (for context: the EPA currently employs 17,000 people).
In other words:
DOJ: Let the EPA enforce the Clean Air Act in a way that doesn’t require 230,000 employees and $21 billion
Daily Caller, Fox News, NRO, etc.: OMG, the EPA wants to hire 230,000 employees and spend $21 billion!
File this story under “too good to check.”