Reducing Burden Without Reducing Protections
by Guest Blogger, 10/29/2006
The Small Business Administration launched a website last week to help businesses make their way through the regulatory maze. Business.gov is the first government website to bring all federal regulatory information under one roof. Over 20,000 compliance-related documents from 94 agencies are available at business.gov, and the website is fully searchable by industry or topic. Unlike industry efforts to weaken or eliminate regulations, compliance assistance can save businesses money while maintaining needed protections.
Industry groups often argue that regulatory protections should be weakened or eliminated because complying with the regulations is too onerous for small businesses, which do not have the time or money to weed through the complex matrix of applicable regulations. Well, industry's argument just got a little weaker.
