That's just wrong, factually in error from the get go
Isaac Send a noteboard - 03/11/2011 09:47:28 PM
I cannot recall an instance of a corporation lobbying for the government to have more power; their record is one of lobbying for just the opposite.
Corporations regularly support regulations and lobby for news ones, sometimes with the best of motives too... even barring obvious good/bad like pushing for a new regulation that might constrain competitors, a coal, solar, or nuclear power corporation might cheerfully encourage and lobby for noise/safety regulation on windmills, and they as a group minus coal might be only too happy to favor carbon taxes and restrictions, minus coal. Various light bulb manufacturers can and have pressed for restrictions on classic bulbs in favor of CFL and raised dread specters and pushed for regulation on LEDs as some contain tiny amounts of lead. A paper recycling plant might favor and lobby for increased restrictions on timber harvesting, ditto can recyclers on the mining industry, as in both cases their own cost remain the same but their products are more competitive. Clothing, shoes, building materials all have various alternatives which might be considered more or less 'green' and increased regulation of that nature allows those in say, cotton or wool, to be more competitive with synthetic fibers or even leather, with cows farting so much carbon. I can cite you examples if you'd like, though I tihnk you'd concede the point as common sense. Even companies who will themselves, as opposed to their competitors, be hit with a regulation might favor it if they can raise their prices initially to cover the new fees then streamline compliance and never get around to lowering prices appropriately, "Oh, your phone bill will cost $2.00 more a month for compliance with regs" and down the line as they streamline that cost to, say, $1.50, keep that fifty cents or benefit as a smaller competitor who streamlines can't cut down below, say, $1.75, becomes less competitive... so yes corporations often do favor regulation increases. Nor would this always be sinister, some company with ethics might replant trees after they harvest them and take efforts to minimize ecological damage and soil erosion, voluntarily or because of local regs, but a competitor of theirs with less ethics or less restrictions might not, and they'd naturally favor regs requiring the same efforts they put in, particularly since they'd have already streamlined compliance and their competitor will likely see a large temporary cost increase above what they themselves pay to comply.
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Great visual summary of the differences between the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street
31/10/2011 02:59:18 PM
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I hear OSWers suggest dumping the Constitution about as often as Tea Partiers suggest fixing govt.
31/10/2011 08:01:39 PM
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That's a touch questionable
31/10/2011 09:49:09 PM
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The subject line? I disagree (obviously. )
31/10/2011 11:23:57 PM
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I think that this image actually is the best- short and to the point
01/11/2011 01:24:23 AM
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I disagree.
03/11/2011 08:44:54 PM
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That's just wrong, factually in error from the get go
03/11/2011 09:47:28 PM
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That seems more like Gores old "I do not believe in unilateral disarmament" argument.
11/11/2011 08:58:44 AM
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