Three quarters — 74 percent — of voters throughout the country believe that businesses and consumers are over-regulated, according to a Public Notice poll released today. And they strongly suspect that much of that over-regulation has been implemented recently: 67 percent believe that regulations have increased over the past few years.Of course you mileage may vary.
Hat tip to the Instapundit.
Regards — Cliff
Cliff,
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An ex-classmate
We could believe that Ms Gretchen Hamel invented the numbers out of whole cloth. We could believe that her questions were bad or that her sample left something to be desired (804 of the wrong people).
ReplyDeleteHowever, except for the idea that she just flat out lied, there might be a trend in here. Since it is a poll I see it as a straw in the wind, but still, it indicates that there is some straw around.
I don't have any better numbers and my statistician is not available at this moment, although I will ask her later on.
I think over-regulation is a problem for the economy, based on what I read and based on a small sample size of local small businesses. This poll supports the idea that others may think so also. It doesn't prove anything.
I am keeping my eye out for other views and welcome inputs, either as a comment or as an EMail to me (EMail is my initials, crk and it is at "theworld.com").
Regards — Cliff
PS: Actually, this comment sounds more like my Brother Lance than any known ex-classmate.
It's a few clicks deep, but the actual questions are available here. I didn't find them too poorly worded. I just found the questions very simplistic in some cases, and the results somewhat surprising in others.
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