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Government regulations:  Productivity is being stifled by costly, unnecessary and unproductive government controls, notes Michael E. Simon of Arthur Anderson & Company, whose firm did a study to measure the incremental costs of govern­mental regulations.  “The Lord’s Prayer contains 56 words, Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address is 268 words, and the Declaration of Independence is 1,322 words,” said Simon.  “But a government regulation on the sale of cabbage requires 26,911 words.  Any person who has ever tried to cope with a government form knows that the regulatory process can be improved!”

Success Unlimited, October 1980, page 26