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EPA's analysis indicates that the first year, 60 percent (2,895) of the small entities will expend less than 1 percent of their annual revenue for the rule's compliance costs, 12 percent (569) will expend between 1 percent and 3 percent, and 119 or 2 percent will expend 3 percent or more of their annual revenues for compliance.
EPA also estimates that 49 public utilities owned by 41 municipalities will be affected by the rule, and of that total, the 18 small governmental entities (populations under 50,000) affected will expend less than 1 percent of their annual revenues for compliance.
’ In this era of lawyers unprecedented wealth and power, few of them will expend many of their precious minutes listening to admonitions on their language.
A perfectly efficient government would find its platforms instantly implemented; a completely inefficient one would expend all its resources without accomplishing any of its goals.
They don't drool or wear their shirts backward, but they do expend insane amounts of energy on ridiculous "politics," dissipating most of it through meaningless infighting and petty posturing.