Regulations don't create costs, they distribute them

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Heard this on the radio today and it floored me because I'd never heard it put that well before:

"Regulations don't create costs; they determine who bears the burden of a cost".

This is how we have to frame regulation.

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1. the goal of corporations

is to shift costs to the citizens - always.
They have been relieved of the healthcare costs they create for citizens through toxic products, polluted air, water, and soil.
Minimal research equals no responsibility.

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2. As Thom Hartmann noted...

Regulations are consumer and environmental protections.
And, that these regulations actually create jobs.