my point is, be clear. these executive orders won t do what he s saying they will do. they re symbolic. they don t have any teeth. charlie, i prefer to call him chuckie like the creature from those movies. no, charlie, look. the executive order is an order for a review of these regulations. of course. it s the first step. if the treasury secretary and administration are going to make the case to congress as to why these things need to be repealed they have the ammunition. let s be real clear here. it s a photo op. you can review them without making such a big deal out of it. just review them and get rid of dodd frank, please. sandra: give them a chance. steve mnuchin is speaking. the president at his side. let s listen. of our tax code which consumes billions of productive hours in compliance cost. a significant amount of time has passed since the crisis. with the passage of time and with your leadership, we are now well positioned to evaluate what
that has been hard or not for businesses to comply wl. that s part of the compliance burden i described earlier. it s a very good point. you re certainly doing new arithmetic. never before did anyone devise and calculate full time equivalent employees and it s those businesses had to do it with fewer than 25 employees to see if they qualify for a temporary limited tax credit. the real stick was 50 or more. it s not easy, you have to do it on a monthly basis. if you outsource it, it increases compliance cost. if you do it in house, it s not an easy task to do either. john, what to you think about this. we re talking about a very small percentage of businesses. the rule has to be set somewhere. it s not that complicated to figure out how many employees you have that are working more than 30 hours a week.
make up about some old lady who can t get an operation on her gall badder? what. a critical thing is what people are reading in their local papers because that s where you see the granular anecdotes of people having serious problems. in addition to that i think that he s about to see some horror stories come from doctors. steven hayes of the weekly standard has a long feature piece about the new codes that are required for for doctors to put in for anything that they if you walk in with a jelly fish sting there s a specific code for that. it s adding thousands of dollars to the compliance cost for doctors. they are confused by it, and the administration won t work with them to try to extend the deadline to try to figure it out. terrible. so it s not just the consumer, it s now about to be the doctors as well. jesse, talk a little bit about union workers in nevada pushing back on obamacare, pretty rattling? pretty ironic, and the fact is that when harry reid says, you
make up about some old lady who can t get an operation on her gall badder? what. a critical thing is what people are reading in their local papers because that s where you see the granular anecdotes of people having serious problems. in addition to that i think that he s about to see some horror stories come from doctors. steven hayes of the weekly standard has a long feature piece about the new codes that are required for for doctors to put in for anything that they if you walk in with a jelly fish sting there s a specific code for that. it s adding thousands of dollars to the compliance cost for doctors. they are confused by it, and the administration won t work with them to try to extend the deadline to try to figure it out. terrible. so it s not just the consumer, it s now about to be the doctors as well. jesse, talk a little bit about union workers in nevada pushing back on obamacare, pretty rattling? pretty ironic, and the fact is that when harry reid says, you
now, some fresh pickings from the political grapevine. more proof for those who believe we re living in a regulation nation. even though last week had only four work days, nearly 1700 pages were added to the federal registry. the competitive enterprise institute said in the last two weeks, there have been 144 final regulations, which is the equivalent of a new rule every 2 1/2 hours. they re on pace for 136 regulations this year. total estimated compliance cost of this year s economically significant regulations is between $6 billion and $12 billion with a b dollars. the department of homeland security employee placed on administrative leave for administering the mass killing of white people has not been fired. he s still collecting paychecks nearly four months after that story broke.