Quote (thundercock @ Apr 1 2014 08:05pm)
Yes, because safety regulations are oppressive and economically disastrous.
Even the tiniest bit of research on the subject would tell you that the unbelievably long list of regulations we already have prevents citizens from doing all kinds of peaceful things and adds huge costs to business that could have been spent differently improving people's lives. This effect compounds as time goes on as more and more wealth that would have been created can not be built off of.
According to one study in the Journal of Economic Growth
our annual output is "28 percent of what it would have been had regulation remained at its 1949 level."Adding more and more and more regulations in an effort to completely stamp out all perceived wrongdoing will just worsen the effects.
But hey lets have a police state where you cant even open a lemonade stand or buy a lightbulb or take a dump without government approval from expensive bureaucrats.
After all, we have to stop all 'crime'.
Don't we?This post was edited by cambovenzi on Apr 1 2014 11:13pm