‘Compliance’: The Word That Sunk a Million U.S. Jobs

Pajamas Media  "Costs not related to the quality of the end product — costs created entirely by overbearing government — have destroyed our manufacturing sector."....
"Politicians have treated business as a painless source of social and monetary benefits for nearly forty years. In the end, regardless of their origin or intent, all costs of doing business must be able to fit into the competition model. A business that can’t recover all its costs must find a way to reduce them — possibly by relocating to where they don’t have those costs."