If taxpayers' time is valued at $25 an hour, that's a grand total of $99 billion spent complying.
"Resources are being spent complying with requirements that have little or no safety benefit," Anthony Pietrangelo, a senior vice president at the industry's premier trade association, the Nuclear Energy Institute, told Congress last December.
Mr. Meeks said all of the spending complied with campaign finance rules, an assessment that Ms. Sloan said she could not dispute.
Enright said that ensuring compliance under GDPR was complicated and costly, but wouldn't put a figure on how much Google had spent on complying with GDPR when asked by one lawmaker.
GE can capitalize on the problems of others: airlines whose slim profits depend on getting a few more turbine revolutions out of a gallon of aviation fuel; railroads feeling the pinch of pollution controls; utilities that must decide now how much to spend to comply with carbon dioxide limits a decade from now.
"There is a concern," said Jane Meyer, director of educational outreach for the N.C.A.A., which holds annual clinics to help colleges shift spending to comply with Title IX. "These are tough decisions".
That is about equal to what the state has been spending to comply with a 1984 agreement in the case, which set a quota of 50percentt white enrollment at Tennessee State.
David Ernst, a spokesman for the state's school boards association, said that the bill would have seemed pretty good in a typical year, but that it came as a disappointment this year, when the bar was set high by expectations that the state would sharply increase spending to comply with the court order.
It can make life easier for honest corporations, since they have to spend less time complying with overly complex rules, and also thwart dishonest ones, since regulators can spend more time looking at the substance, rather than the minutiae, of corporate bad behavior.
But too many new rules impose costs that exceed their benefits: the intensive review of internal controls required by Sarbanes-Oxley is one example among many.Bosses of listed firms gripe that they spend more time complying with rules than cooking up new products.
