President Obama continues to hurt American business owners and those Americans looking for a job.
His answer is another so-called jobs act that will actually spend more of our hard-earned money to grow government, not jobs. Worse yet for job creation, the president allows his administration to saddle businesses with thousands of regulations. The regulations prevent businesses from thriving, keep them from hiring new employees, and actually threaten to force business owners to reduce their current workforce to pay for expensive updates.
From the unconstitutional Obamacare legislation to mandates on the financial services sector, new hurdles to economic prosperity keep being proposed one after another. The worst offender in the presidents administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, led by Administrator Lisa Jackson, has advocated for hundreds of additional rules that require job creators to meet standards that are both expensive and unattainable.
The EPA has changed emissions standards that utility plants and other large facilities must meet. This will cause businesses to purchase new, expensive equipment. When businesses acquire a new expense, they are forced to recoup the money through increased costs for consumers, the American people. It is unfair of President Obama to require these changes and thereby force Americans to pay for these regulations.
To hold the Obama administration accountable for the job-crushing regulations, the U.S. House of Representatives recently passed the Transparency in Regulatory Analysis of Impacts on the Nation, known as the TRAIN Act. It directs President Obama to establish a committee to review new rules and regulations to determine their financial impact to consumers and to businesses. The TRAIN Act, supported by every one of Floridas representatives in the U.S. House, is a great example of Floridas leadership in fighting to get the nation back on the right track.
Our Republican leaders in Florida are also continuing to fight Obamacare, which Gov. Rick Scott rightfully calls a job killer. Florida, through our Attorney General Pam Bondi, leads a group of 26 states standing ready to argue at the U.S. Supreme Court and overturn this unconstitutional health-care takeover. The Supreme Court is expected to rule early next year.
We must all remember that when a business is forced to make changes, like purchasing new, expensive equipment to meet stricter standards, those expenses are in turn pushed onto you, the consumer. Businesses that spend money on Washington-driven regulations will not hire new employees and many will be forced to reduce their current staffing levels.
Tell Washington and President Obama to stop these job-killing regulations now.
Lenny Curry is chairman of the Republican Party of Florida.
