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Celebrating its fourth birthday over the weekend. anybody bake a cake for it? with six days to go before the obamacare deadline, the study that they wish didn't happen. a lot of families and business, you have to do a cost-benefit analysis. new study out that basically says the costs outweigh the benefit. >> in a gigantic way, take a look at this. the american action forum estimates that the regulatory cost to the united states since the affordable care act was signed is $27 billion. what that boils down to, the annual regulatory cost, $6.8 billion, which it looks like the annual benefit cost ...
Question about resources and preparation, and you had something to say about new orleans and the -- >> well, let's take new orleans. katrina cost roughly $100 billion. the u.s. army corps of engineers spent i think on the order of $15 billion after the storm to fix the problem. it would have taken maybe $8 billion to $10 billion or something like that to fix it before the problem. so, for every $1 that you spend ahead of disaster protecting against disaster has been on average nationwide shown to save you $4 of not-incurred losses. >> right. >> in new orleans it would be a 10-1 benefit cost. >...
new york. i'm wolf blitzer. thanks for watching. the news continues next on cnn. good evening, everyone. it is testing time in american politics. one leading republican presidential contender, texas governor rick perry, is about to make his debate debut and is drawing a political spotlight as his state deals with punishing wildfires. >> at this point we're urging people to avoid any outdoor activity which could conceivably start a fire. >> another top-tier gop contender the former mches governor mitt romney took issue with the democratic incumbent as he outlined a 59-point plan t...
>> neil: is this why your running away to las vegas? >> we're going to have a heck of a show a week from saturday. we're taking the show to vegas to talk about the impact of this economy on tourism. while there, if we have fun, forgives us. no gambling for me. >> neil: governor huckabee. thank you very much. we're getting more outs of governor schwarzenegger, outlining the tax code as it stand and the tax rates. they're among the more onerous. they'll stay as they are, as the governor huckabee pointed out, much of this rests on whether he can get this done almost entirelily through spending cu...