Coming to CPAC? Join the Cost of Government Center!

Americans for Tax Reform and its Cost of Government Center will be hosting a panel at this week's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) to discuss the expanding regulatory state. If the increased regulatory burden under the Obama Administration is any indication, this will be the next front in the war against big government.

Every year, ATRF produces the Cost of Government Day Report, which calculates the full burden of government spending and regulation. In 2011, the average American had to work 77 days to pay for the costs of government regulations at the state, local and federal level. This means the regulatory burden consumes more than a fifth of national income. This panel will focus on how we got to this point, and what can be done to combat the escalation in government overreach. Join us!

The Red Tape War:
How the Regulatory Burden and Growing Nanny State Threaten Prosperity

Panelists include:

• Sam Kazman, general counsel of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Director of “Death by Regulation,” a CEI project

• Phil Kerpen, vice president for policy at Americans for Prosperity, a columnist on Fox News Opinion, chairman of the Internet Freedom Coalition, and author of the 2011 book Democracy Denied

• Katherine Mangu-War, managing editor of Reason magazine and Reason.com, a 2005 Phillips Foundation Journalism Fellow whose work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times online and numerous other publications

Moderated by:
Mattie Duppler, government affairs manager at Americans for Tax Reform and executive director of the Cost of Government Center

Thursday, February 9th
10:00-11:00 a.m.
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TAGS: Regulation