08-04-2011, 03:32 PM
Grace62 wrote:
More con mythology:
"Government needs to get out of the way of business."
This means: we don't want to pay a fair share of taxes nor be regulated.
I'll politely disagree with you, and refer directly to my posting. You may attribute these concepts to all such discussions, but I'm intimately familiar with the detailed workings of a few such cases. I'm not talking about 'DeRegulation', I'm talking about simplifying regulation.
Example: My company installed a wind generator. The whole program was threatened with cancellation and a year and a half's delay because the EPA sued the Department of Energy because someone suddenly decided the spinning generator might slaughter a flock of bats. All the permits, environmental impact statements, yadda yadda were already approved and in hand, and then the EPA got bats in their belfry and spent tax money on lawyers.
That sort of foolishness is what I refer to. We want to comply with the laws. We were. And then they went and made something up, with the appearance of wanting to just stop us. Stop us from a project that the President had called for... energy independence. Stop us from a project that the Governor of Ohio had personally called the White House about.