Obfuscation at the EPA

Sam Batkins and Ike Brannon write in Regulation Magazine:

"Under the EPA’s economic analysis, forcing firms out of business might be a boon to the struggling legal industry and bankruptcy attorneys. As the agency has suggested in its past RIAs, times of high unemployment are optimal for imposing regulations that “increase overall employment.” President Obama’s new order seems to have forced the wrong sort of innovative thinking among his agencies; the tone of most RIAs makes it clear that few EPA analysts are reading Frédéric Bastiat."

Read the full article, by Sam Batkins and Ike Brannon, here.