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Recursion

(56,582 posts) Mon May 1, 2017, 09:53 PM May 2017

Regulations don't create costs, they distribute them

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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Regulations don't create costs, they distribute them (Original Post) Recursion May 2017 OP

the goal of corporations KT2000 May 2017 #1

As Thom Hartmann noted... Trial_By_Fire May 2017 #2

KT2000

(22,220 posts)

1. the goal of corporations

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Mon May 1, 2017, 10:08 PM

May 2017

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.

Trial_By_Fire

(624 posts)

2. As Thom Hartmann noted...

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Mon May 1, 2017, 10:10 PM

May 2017

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

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