03-11-2017, 02:38 PM
(03-11-2017, 09:52 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: The other side of the coin would just be, are we deregulating too much? Are jobs worth the potential risks and the hit to the environment?
Oh I shouldn't even get started on this. Cutting regulations is the "right's" (meaning the economic-liberal's
) allrounder. The left has those too (just you wouldn't know, for you have no left), sure, but this deregulation talk is puzzling. As if regulations solely were in place to put obstacles to economy.No one even seems to ask the question you're asking. Why are these regulations there in the first place. Mainly so that consumers and employees don't get screwed over, for ensuring public and worker's safety, for environmental protection, to make sure companies pay their fair share of taxes and so on. And some of them are probably useless.
And whoever believes in a completely free economy probably believes all of them are useless, for a company that lets their workers perish, pollutes and transfers profits to the Caymans gets "bad reputation" anyway and hence couldn't compete on the free market. As if.
Regarding jobs, from earlier times one can say completely full employment is not the best thing for an economy too. When everyone knows he gets a job anyway, there's not too much incentive for many to do a good job. Sad, but true.
Finally, what the US seems to need are better paid jobs, not just "jobs". Needing three of them to get by is not the solution either.
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