{"id":3984,"date":"2011-02-01T10:09:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T18:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3984"},"modified":"2011-02-01T10:09:18","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T18:09:18","slug":"what-issa-want-to-destroy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/01\/what-issa-want-to-destroy\/","title":{"rendered":"What Issa Want to Destroy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Part of the Republican agenda for transferring wealth from poor and middle class Americans to millionaires, billionaires and criminal corporation is to seek and destroy the regulations that protect Americans. You may remember that Darrell Issa asked for help in determining which regulations to destroy. The Heritage Foundation, a Plutocon Republican think tank, have provided Issa a list.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \" align=\"left\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"1issa\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1issa\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/1issa.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"255\" \/>CREW got a hold of <\/font><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a style=\"text-align: left\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/collections\/2827273\/Letters-to-Darrell-Issa-Chairman-Committee-on-Oversight-and-Government-Reform?page=2\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=\"#0066cc\" face=\"Calibri\">a bunch of letters<\/font><\/a><\/font><font face=\"Calibri\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"> to House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa from trade association, industry, and think tank leaders, which identify aspects of the federal regulatory regime that they believe Issa should investigate to make life and profits easier for businesses. <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \" align=\"left\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The one that most neatly reflects the priorities of the conservative movement comes from the Heritage Foundation, which is asking Issa to attack decades worth of regulatory and statutory worker and consumer protections. <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \" align=\"left\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Here&#8217;s the laundry list:<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<ul style=\"line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; padding-left: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.75in\" type=\"disc\">\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-family: \"><font face=\"Calibri\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Individual health insurance mandate<\/font><\/font><\/span> <\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-family: \"><font face=\"Calibri\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Employer health insurance mandate<\/font><\/font><\/span> <\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-family: \"><font face=\"Calibri\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Minimum health insurance benefit standards<\/font><\/font><\/span> <\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-family: \"><font face=\"Calibri\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">All future Consumer Financial Protection Bureau regulations<\/font><\/font><\/span> <\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-family: \"><font face=\"Calibri\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Limiting debit card fees<\/font><\/font><\/span> <\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-family: \"><font face=\"Calibri\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Transparency for shareholders<\/font><\/font><\/span> <\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-family: \"><font face=\"Calibri\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Credit card regulation<\/font><\/font><\/span> <\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-family: \"><font face=\"Calibri\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Incandescent light bulb phase out<\/font><\/font><\/span> <\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-family: \"><font face=\"Calibri\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Broader energy efficiency standards<\/font><\/font><\/span> <\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-family: \"><font face=\"Calibri\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Fuel efficiency standards<\/font><\/font><\/span> <\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-family: \"><font face=\"Calibri\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Carbon pollution regulation<\/font><\/font><\/span> <\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-family: \"><font face=\"Calibri\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Auto tailpipe standard<\/font><\/font><\/span> <\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-family: \"><font face=\"Calibri\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Renewable fuel standards<\/font><\/font><\/span> <\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-family: \"><font face=\"Calibri\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Low-income housing promotion<\/font><\/font><\/span> <\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-family: \"><font face=\"Calibri\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Corporate accounting requirements<\/font><\/font><\/span> <\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-family: \"><font face=\"Calibri\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Net neutrality<\/font><\/font><\/span> <\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-family: \"><font face=\"Calibri\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Corporate media ownership rules<\/font><\/font><\/span> <\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-family: \"><font face=\"Calibri\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Dairy price controls<\/font><\/font><\/span> <\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-family: \"><font face=\"Calibri\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Domestic sugar subsidization<\/font><\/font><\/span> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \" align=\"left\"><a style=\"text-align: left\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/documents\/2011\/01\/heritage-foundation-asks-issa-to-beat-back-decades-of-major-regulations.php?page=1\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=\"#0066cc\" face=\"Calibri\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Read the whole thing here<\/font><\/font><\/a><font face=\"Calibri\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">. <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \" align=\"left\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">You might not disagree with every one of these. But it&#8217;s a broad cross-section of the current protections\u2026<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted From &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2011\/01\/heritage-asks-issa-to-attack-decades-of-worker-consumer-and-environmental-protections.php\" target=\"_blank\">TPM<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Building these protections for Americans health, safety and finances took decades.&#160; But the well being of US taxpayers is what the Republican party wants to destroy.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of the Republican agenda for transferring wealth from poor and middle class Americans to millionaires, billionaires and criminal corporation is to seek and destroy the regulations that protect Americans. You may remember that Darrell Issa asked for help in determining which regulations to destroy. 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