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ARTICLE: State Regulations Cost CA $493 Billion and 3.8 Million Jobs

September 26, 2009

This article in the OC Register highlights the recent business report on the effect of state regulations on California businesses. The report found that business regulations cost an average of $134,122 per small California business, $13,801 per household and $4,685 per resident each year. And the legislature wonders why the state economy is failing and why businesses are leaving California by the dozens...

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