FCC Budget: Out of Control

by on November 29, 2007 · 2 comments

This is just a quick follow-up to the post I made earlier in which I mentioned the new editorial James Gattuso and I penned for National Review about the growth of FCC regulation and spending in recent years. A few people asked me where we got the numbers we used in the piece regarding the growth of the FCC’s budget over time. Here are the relevant numbers and a graph charting that growth. The numbers can all be found in the the FCC’s annual budget reports.

Next time some pro-regulatory advocate says that the agency is engaged in “radical deregulation” or something absurd like that, show them these numbers. There’s still a whole lotta regulatin’ going on over there! FCC Budget Chart FCC Budget Graph

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Adam Thierer is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He previously served as President of The Progress & Freedom Foundation, as Director of Telecommunications Studies at the Cato Institute, and as a Fellow in Economic Policy at the Heritage Foundation. He is the author or editor of six books on technology and media policy and also writes a weekly column for Forbes called "Technologies of Freedom." Thierer earned his bachelor's degree in political science and journalism at Indiana University and received his master's degree in international business management and trade theory at the University of Maryland. His passions in life (besides technology and liberty, of course) are fast cars, fine cigars, and good beer.

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    hmmm..loks like the budget was coming under control–under Clinton.

    It’s those “anti-government” wackos like Bush who seem to push up spending—their goal of course, is to make the government bankrupt, as they could never acheive their anti-govt agenda directly at the ballot box, but instead have adopted deliberate mismanagement as a policy.

    This could, of course, simply be construed as treason.

  • http://enigmafoundry.wordpress.com eee_eff

    hmmm..loks like the budget was coming under control–under Clinton.

    It’s those “anti-government” wackos like Bush who seem to push up spending—their goal of course, is to make the government bankrupt, as they could never acheive their anti-govt agenda directly at the ballot box, but instead have adopted deliberate mismanagement as a policy.

    This could, of course, simply be construed as treason.

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