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Originally posted by phyzix525
EPA 6.453 billion
OSHA 443 million
SBA 340 million
SEC 253 million
Equal employment oportunity commission 244 million
FCC 165million
FTC 89million
Consumer product saftey comm, 40 million
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All of those add together to equal 9.2B dollars. Considering the fact that the 2005 federal budget is somewhere around 2.4T dollars, those programs combine to draw 0.38% of the budget.
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Originally posted by phyzix525
Its funny we spend more (6.413billion more) to make sure the plants and animals are ok, then we do to make sure the products that are made don't kill us.
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If that's your opinion of the EPA then you seriously need to read about how things were and where they were going before we started environmental regulations. It's not there to prevent plants and animals, it's meant to protect US.