Government compliance is expensive (Bryson)
August 28th, 2008 | Published in Economics, Quotes, Politics
Altogether, it has been estimated, the cost to the nation of complying with the full whack of federal regulations is $668 billion a year, an average of $7,000 per household. That’s a lot of compliance.
—Bill Bryson, I’m a Stranger Here Myself (Broadway Books: 1999), p. 99.