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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Oh, OK, sorry for the misunderstanding. The Democratic Party is still against all that stuff. For motherhood, apple pie and national security; against oil and sewage dumping, farm non-inspection, and pension theft.
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It's easy to spin that way, but it really is a pain in the ass to comply with regulations. I think that while it seems inefficient, it's more efficient than having all these individual actors roaming around doing their own things and then having to fix it (which is nearly always more expensive than just doing it differently the first time around) when you get sued, or whatever. I mean, WAY easier to dispose of my oil properly than to compensate people for the diseases they get from polluted groundwater, or to dig up all the earth that was touched by the oil and then find someplace to dispose of that hugely larger hunk of stuff.
But, obviously, opinions differ.
