Despite its intrusiveness, food manufacturers backed the law in the hope that it would restore public trust in the food system, which had been shaken by fatal outbreaks of E. coli and salmonella.Nonetheless, Mr Obama now seems more sympathetic to business complaints about regulatory overkill.
Li Ning, which sells sports kit in China, is valued at 30 times trailing earnings, half again as much as Nike, which also has a robust China business but trades in America.At the same time disclosure requirements and general intrusiveness are lower in Hong Kong than in other destinations.
So it is with many African countries, fed up with the intrusiveness of Europeans and Americans fussing about corruption or torture and clamouring for accountability.
They also vary in cost, complexity and intrusiveness.
Government, in both its intrusiveness and its incompetence, is a hindrance to them.
Experts dismiss its ostensible worries about its purpose: the intrusiveness of the radar, and the "interoperability" of the system ie, the fear that it might be linked up with those already deployed in Japan and Guam, and that it might eventually even be rolled out in India, encircling China.
The rules will be phased in over four years, starting in 2014.FATCA's intrusiveness has caused concern among banks and fund managers.
If you offered a patient two equivalent outcomes with different treatments, one of which cost drastically less, I strongly suspect that most patients would take the cheaper option (other things, like pain and intrusiveness, equal).
So, despite increased support for government at a general level, concerns about specific inefficiency or intrusiveness remain strong.When all is said, the default setting for American politics is turned to "distrust", and only the biggest upheavals civil war, depression, world war can alter it profoundly.
The latter would be easier to penetrate if reliable ownership information were collected, but often it is not and America is one of the worst laggards (see Delaware, Nevada and all the other money-laundering paradises within its borders).FATCA's intrusiveness raises serious privacy issues.
SO AT last it is official: George Bush is in favour of unequal rights, big-government intrusiveness and federal power rather than devolution to the states.
