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Mark Crain and Thomas Hopkins, Impact of Regulatory Costs on Small Firms. U.S. Small Business Administration, 409 Third Street S.W., Washington, D.C. 20416
The burden of government regulations on business is heaviest of all, economists Mark Crain and Thomas Hopkins show, on smaller enterprises.
In 2000, they calculate, it cost U.S. businesses $843 billion to comply with government regulations. They divided these regulations into four types: environmental, economic (i.e., restrictions on what businesses can sell and buy), workplace, and tax regulations.
Overall, Crain and Hopkins estimate, businesses in 2000 paid ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Small Business Burdened. (Economics and Business).(Review)(Brief...