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 Federal
regulatory agencies will spend $46.6 billion of U.S.
taxpayers’ money in 2008, an inflation-adjusted
increase of $1.7 billion over the 2007 budget. In addition,
the number of regulatory employees will pass the quarter-million
mark, with a 3% increase over 2007’s estimated
244,210 employees announces Growth in Regulation
Slows: An Analysis of the U.S. Budget for Fiscal Years
2007 and 2008, an annual report on federal
regulatory spending and staffing by the by the Weidenbaum
Center's Melinda Warren and Mercatus Center's Jerry
Brito.
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