Lancaster farming. (Lancaster, Pa., etc.) 1955-current, June 04, 1977, Image 137

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    ederal bureaucracy enrages business
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Twenty-one representatives
r l took a stand against
rjslation creating the
\ nc y for Consumer
action (ACP) were
'ecenfly by Wilson S.
jn, president of the
iional Federation of
iependent Business
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small business organization.
The 21 legislators,
members of the House
Government Operations
Committee, voted to block
efforts to report the AGP bill
to the House floor for action.
The legislation was reported
out by a 22-21 vote.
“It’s just too bad that the
small businessman couldn’t
find one more representative
brave enough to vote against
this terrible bill,” Johnson
said. “Those 21 men who did
oppose the bill, voted the
conviction of most
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Research Corporation pool
shows that 81 per cent of the
citizens oppose such a new
bureaucratic agency.” -
The 21 Congressmen
praised by Johnson included
Lancaster County’s Robert
Walker.
Johnson said that he wants
to make it emphatically
clear that NFIB opposes the
proposed new agency
because many of ACP’s
supporters claim that only
big business is against the
legislation.
“Struggling small
businessmen and fanners
see this monstrous bill as a
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detriment to their continued
existence. NFIB wants to
encourage all congressmen
to battle against this
legislation on the House
floor.
“The ACP proposal
doesn’t coincide with
President Carter’s promise
to cut the size and power of
government. There already
are more than 200 consumer
advocacy agencies at the
federal, state and local
level,” he charged.
“The small businessman
already spends one half to
one day a week on federal
paperwork....he sure doesn’t
need to'be burdened by more
red tape,” Johnson said.
Johnson refuted
arguments that ACP will be
a small agency, pointing out
that the Occupational Safety
St Health Administration
(OSHA), fed by the
taxpayers’ dollars, has
grown fat. “OSHA in 1972
bad a budget of $35.8 million
and 350 inspectors,” he said.
“In fiscal 1978, OSHA will
have $134.6 mion and 1,400
inspectors. ' Can the
taxpayers afford any more
of these SMALL agencies?”
“Despite arguments that
ACP would be non
regulatory, the legislation
requires ihe President to
determine what existing
consumer programs should
be made part of the agency.
President Carter could
transfer such regulatory
agencies as the Consumer
Product Safety Commission
and various consumer
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programs from the Federal
Trade Commission,” he
added.
“ACP quickly would
become one of Washington’s
super regulators,” Johnson
said, “In other words,
another agency whose
function is to cause delay,
and we all know that only
aggravates costs. Does the
American consumer,
already concerned about
inflation, want to see another
round of inflationary rises
caused by the needless
meddling of faceless
bureaucrats hiding inside
another cumbersome federal
agency? We think not,”
Johnson pointed out that
the legislation exempts
organized labor and its
contract negotiations from
ACP jurisdiction.
“Negotiated wage and fringe
benefit increases mean price
hikes. By exempting
organized labor, and not
small business, the
legislation exempts a major
determinant of consumer
prices and needlessly covers
one sector that has less
impact.”
“A worthwhile small
business paperwork
exemption also is contained
in the ACP bill,” Johnson
said. “It doesn’t exempt
small business from the law -
only temporarily from
required paperwork
generated by the law. It also
permits the ACP
administrator to request
data from a small business,
a requirement that might be
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constructed by many small
firms as another demand
from another federal czar.”
Johnson predicted a dose
vote on the House floor on the
ACP bill.
“The mounting complaints
from citizens opposed to
another bureaucracy are
having an effect,” he said.
“We hope that Congress will
listen to their constituency
and bury this bad idea once
and for all.”
NFIB is a nonprofit,
nonpartisan organization
representing the interests of
more than 500,000 member
firms.
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