The most air pollution is in what US city?

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48. Pollution regulation in the US was not a major cause of job moving overseas.

This lie has been used to scare people to vote against the health of their families for decades. It is a great illustration of Mark Twain's great quote “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

Because it takes a lot of research and a certain expertise in environmental regulations and industrial engineering, the media finds it just so easy to just take at face value the lie that environmental regulations cost jobs. While it is complicated, environmental regulations add jobs overall. The reason jobs were moved overseas was to take advantage of the drastically lower wages and benefits paid to workers in the third world. There also vast tax and other financial incentives to close industries in the US and move manufacturing overseas.

The amount of money spent on compliance with environmental regulations looks like a lot of money when published by itself, but when compared with all the actual expenses of running a manufacturing facility environmental regulations are actually pretty far down the list for most industries.

One little fact of which few people are aware, is that air pollution control equipment have extensive tax exemptions.