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^According to the just-released 2010 edition of "Ten Thousand Commandments," an annual study published by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, businesses and individuals paid $1.187 trillion last year to comply with federal rules. Factor in the $54.3 billion that the federal government spends on administration and enforcement, and the full cost of the regulatory state comes to $1.24 trillion. By comparison, Canada's entire GDP last year was $1.32 trillion.^

^The Code of Federal Regulations is now over 157,000 pages long. Last year alone, 3,503 new rules went into effect - that's a new regulation every 2 1/2 hours, day and night, seven days a week.^