Budgetary allotments for U.S. regulatory agencies provide a good measure of the increasing size of government as well as of the increasingly complex regulatory regime with which American businesses, workers, and consumers must comply. Americans are further burdened by a complicated tax code created by an increasing number of tax credits and other such fiscal expenditures in the U.S. budget. While not as visible as direct spending, these budgetary items impose large social and economic costs on Americans. Please join a panel of budget experts for a discussion on the cost of regulation and tax items in the U.S. budget.