what is government regulation?
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Government regulation involves the use of the law, mandated by the state, to produce outcomes which might not otherwise occur, prevent outcomes which might otherwise occur, produce or prevent outcomes in different places to what might otherwise occur, or produce or prevent outcomes in different timescales than would otherwise occur. Regulations rarely produce complete outcomes or prevent outcomes completely but they generally do modify what would otherwise take place.
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Government is a system of social control under which the right to make laws, and the right to enforce them, is vested in a particular group in society. \n\nGovernments are distinguished by whether power is held by one man, a few, or a majority. Today, it is common to distinguish between types of government on the basis of institutional organization and the degree of control exercised over the society.\n\nOrganizationally, governments may be classified into parliamentary or presidential systems, depending on the relationship between executive and legislature. Government may also be classified according to the distribution of power at different levels. \n\nThe basic law determining the form of government is called the constitution and may be written, as in the United States, or largely unwritten, as in Great Britain. Modern governments perform many functions besides the traditional ones of providing internal and external security, order, and justice; most are involved in providing welfare services, regulating the economy, and establishing educational systems. The extreme case of governmental regulation of every aspect of people's lives is totalitarianism.
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The ones having 'gov' domain are under direct control of that particular government, where as governmant has indirect control over commercial or misc portals that are in a country, example - the recent google v/s China government tussle.
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The government is all about rules. Sometimes what you think is best for you or for anyone else doesn't follow the government's rules. Plus, the government has layers and layers of bureaucracy. Trying to get any meaningful change through all of that is very difficult.
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The government. The Government sees all. While society is watching each other, the government is watching us.
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Yes.\n\nThe US Government regulates every business to some extent. Minimum wage, Social Security, Unemployment tax, are all government regulations that dampen the economy.  In addition to this, look at the way they abuse the oil companies.  You think Gas prices are high?  Don't blame the oil companies, look at the US Government.  For the process that crude oil goes through to be gasoline, gas is relatively cheap.  Now, when you start adding environmental regulations that are based on paranoia and not fact, all of a sudden, there are a thousand different additives to the fuel depending on where you are in the country.  This drives the cost up.  The US Government constantly falls victim to the environmentalist wackos, and forbids oil companies from drilling in the Gulf of Mexico or Alaska, as well as forbidding them from building more refineries.  Add all of that together, and gasoline should be a lot more expensive than it is.  Take all of that away, and gas is fifty cents per gallon. \n\nThe oil companies are the best example of Government regulation gone wrong.  Look at it this way, whenever the government steps in and tells a business that they must do something or face penalty of law, that is over-regulation.  Another recent example in Maryland, I think, the government has passed a law that says that any company with over X employees MUST provide benefits for it's employees.  The law was directed at Wal-Mart, because Wal-mart happened to be the only business around that fell into that catagory.  Under the law, if they failed to provide benefits to it's employees, they must pay the difference to the government.  More politicians sticking their faces into places they shouldn't be, just to satisfy some voters.\n\nIf you need more, feel free to ask.
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Process. It is a set of demands and forces that do not answer to institutions or authorities. Markets cannot be governed, only regulated and not always with much success for the regulators. Market forces will always prevail over controls. Look what happened to the Soviet Union and is happening to China.
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That is where the Lezefare policy (privatised freedom) is all about.  In a controlled economy the Government inerfears to stop is the manufacturing of below standard products but in a so called free economy the Government can not interfear into this.  The customers are the better decision makers it is believed.  And we all know the customer awareness in India and the consequences of it. Although we are not in that barbarian society, we are marching towards one.  As on date, we are in betwee, the BIS standards are specified by BIS and these standards are made by expert in the field of that particular products. The products which are upto these standards have been given permission by BIS to print the words "BIS" and its registration number ISI 473 etc.  \n\nNow again it is the customer's option whether to buy a ISI or BIS products or a non-ISI or BIS product.  But do yo know, the Government influenced by these business men is re-thinking on the very existence of this BIS itself considering it as a measure to reduce  extra paper work. This will make the society and business more barbarian and uncivilised with no business ethics.\n\nI agree with you, no products without not as per the standard specified by BIS and with  BIS certificates should be allowed to float in the market.
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The FCC is a device of the Government that was supposed to regulate the power output and liscensing of television and radio.  Over the years, it has been stacked heavily with persons from the Religious Right.  Now, it is a mighty church that tells you what you can listen to.  It is a buerocratic sidestep to the constitution.
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fuedal systems obiding by  the laws of Nature.\nkeeping in mind human nature\nwhich is a local form of self government.\nwith a freemarket system
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A statute can give authority to a government agency or even a non-governmental entity (see the (UK) Lloyd's Act 1982) to pass regulations having the force of law.\n\nThe most obvious case concerns Internal Revenue Regulations.
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Cause the government wants to be right.
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Go to your state board of licensing to find out the regulations that you need to meet.
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It's a government of the people, by the people and for the people.
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Federal regulations usually set the foundation.  State regulations would be tougher.  One example would be federal regulation on mining is not as strict as the state version would be.
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it is the rules of the government, elected officials make it.
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It shouldn't be regulated in the first place... the government needs to get its nose out of everything but running the country and fighting the wars.