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...government should introduce a new cash flow into the economy, either through tax rebates or through massive public projects, but there is a simpler way. Many of the United States’ largest employment industries often spend much of their money complying with very strict Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations on the release of certain compounds such as carbon monoxide and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the Clean Air Act alone is costing the industry $523 billion over 23 years, money that could be better spent elsewhere. If the government was simply to eliminate these standards...
Once these previously jobless citizens are employed, they will spend more money on the economy, thereby spurring greater job growth and causing more hiring, ad infinitum. Thus, eliminating EPA standards would single-handedly pull the United States economy out of its slump. Of course, once the economy was growing at a fast rate, the government would be collecting more money in taxes that it could then use to either pay down its national debt or invade Iran or Syria, as our President sees...
...advantages to relaxing EPA standards are not strictly economic. As a new Massachusetts resident, I have been privy to the harsh New England winters. By releasing greater quantities of carbon monoxide and CFCs into the atmosphere, the United States government could spur global warming to make the weather much more pleasant in the winter. Imagine the quality of life increase for all the New England residents who could go outside in the middle of January with nothing but a T-shirt and shorts. In addition to the added comfort, more moderate temperatures would eliminate problems associated with icy roads...
...much of the utility industry. However, a mandatory cap on carbon dioxide emissions was listed as one of the Bush campaign's promises in the thick notebook titled "Transition 2001," the official compendium of the President's campaign promises, which I was given when I was nominated for the EPA position...
...President, four Republican Senators--Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, Jesse Helms of North Carolina, Larry Craig of Idaho and Pat Roberts of Kansas--were writing a letter of their own to him, expressing their strong opposition to his campaign promise. Within the week after I had returned from Trieste, EPA staff had been called to numerous White House meetings to discuss the issue...