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Your share of the federal regulatory burden: $15,859 a year. It never appears on your tax return.

CEI President @kentatcei walks through the numbers from @wayne_crews 2026 Ten Thousand Commandments report, and what Congress should do about it.

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Tariffs haven't been in the headlines lately, but they're still working their way through supply chains and pushing prices up, per CEI's Ryan Young on June's CPI report. https://t.co/fhtbbiUFON

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Age verification for social media sounds simple in theory. In practice, it means uploading a government ID to a platform, a data honeypot waiting to be hacked. A 2025 Discord breach already leaked 2 million ID photos. | https://t.co/AdAgqkDeIl

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The DOE's latest stove efficiency rule was projected to save Americans money... 21 cents a year. A new proposed rule would set a 10% minimum energy savings threshold to stop rules like this. CEI's Ben Lieberman explains. | https://t.co/y90N98BkmN

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Fight piracy by targeting the actual pirates. Disrupt their payment processing, ad revenue, and hosting arrangements. CEI’s Brian Rankin and DJ Hatch on why deputizing ISPs is the wrong answer: https://t.co/fZPQqXPkt9

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The No Surprises Act's arbitration system was projected to handle about 17,000 disputes a year. It handled 2.5 million in 2025 alone, with providers winning over 85% of cases at 2.5 to 4.6 times negotiated rates. | https://t.co/zOeztTNObi

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On Tuesday, CEI led a coalition of 40+ free-market organizations urging Congress to pass the End EPA Abuse Act, which would stop the agency's most egregious overreach under the Clean Air Act. @Darenbakst, Director of the Center for Energy and Environment and Senior Fellow at CEI heads the letter.

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Obamacare premiums are set to rise 14% in 2027, per new KFF analysis. Insurers cite the end of expanded subsidies, shifting risk pools, and rising costs. Six takeaways from CEI's @JNighohossian. | https://t.co/zOeztTNObi

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A new Pew survey finds 56% of American adults support banning kids under 16 from social media. Australia already tried it. Seven in 10 banned minors stayed on the platforms anyway, using VPNs and workarounds. CEI's Meriel Zeltzer gives analysis. | https://t.co/AdAgqkDeIl

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NEW: the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) just rescinded the government's decades-old, overly broad definition of 'harm' under the Endangered Species Act. CEI's Jacob Tomasulo explains why that matters for private property rights. | https://t.co/WJT1VGX7Oa

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Housing is slow to build partly because permit approval is slow and unpredictable. @SSwedberg57 on why shot clocks are one of the most practical reforms available: https://t.co/ply9GyTu31

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Why does the US require public companies to report earnings every quarter when most of the world doesn’t? CEI’s @jberlau makes the case for ending the mandate: https://t.co/yphCCCMrwW

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The government will penalize you for missing a tax deadline. But housing permit agencies can sit on your application for months with no consequences at all. @SSwedberg57 on why shot clocks would change that: https://t.co/ply9GyTu31

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New homes are expensive for a reason. Before construction even begins, permits add 7.6% to the total price. @SSwedberg57 at CEI describes this undercover permitting tax: https://t.co/oFiqEQfcGv

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Italy’s Piracy Shield was supposed to block pirate streaming sites. At one point it knocked Google Drive offline. CEI’s Brian Rankin and DJ Hatch on the overblocking problem with ISP site-blocking mandates: https://t.co/ABIq9AV3mL

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@SeanGHiggins breaks down why AI job fears follow the exact same pattern as every major technology before it. The steam engine, the car, the internet, all triggered the same panic. Workers shift. New industries grow. https://t.co/YcCp9TZ41T

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Permitting quietly adds ~$38,000 to the cost of a new home. Zoning/land-use: ~$7K. Compliance studies: ~$11K. Permit issuance, inspections, hookups: ~$20K. @SSwedberg57 on the hidden tax nobody’s talking about: https://t.co/iWnZUJ2gLs

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The top 5 departments and top 5 independent agencies together account for 53% of all federal rulemaking in 2026. @wayne_crews on which agencies are driving the regulatory agenda: https://t.co/0bjNRvJVKp

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On August 5, CEI hosts a book forum with Chris Pope of the Manhattan Institute on The American Way of Welfare, in conversation with CEI President Kent Lassman. Luncheon at 12:30 PM at CEI HQ. Register: https://t.co/kB4N0vLcXN

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@KentatCEI @GroverNorquist @KentatCEI: Right now, upwards of $16,000 every year is paid by each household toward regulation. Video: https://t.co/q2QWQUPGY7

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WATCH: CEI President @KentatCEI joined @GroverNorquist to talk about the hidden tax of federal regulatory compliance.

"The things we can lay eyes on, we then calculate it’s about $2.1 TRILLION dollars pulled out of the economy every year. And if you think roughly speaking, those first two categories of taxing and borrowing and spending, we have about a $7 trillion government.