There is money to be made in creating complex rules and laws that nobody can understand. Those who write these laws and regulations can leave their posts and charge companies large fees to decipher the very regulations they wrote. This has become a common practice, a form of indirect extortion. You might be breaking a law and not know it, the pitch goes. Pay me money and I will tell you if you are or not. We will see this in the case of Dodd-Frank. And elsewhere: the author of complex Medicare reforms in the Bush White House was able to cash out and charge health care companies $1,000 an hour
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