FDA and Tobacco Advertising - Because I don't want the last word.

madurofan

I will give you the OP's original statement was too broad and one that is very similar to one I've made too many times. However, it's a generalization about a certain kind of regulation. There are the regulations that make business fair for all, anti-trust, the ones that enforce business ethics, then there are those other ones. The "special interest" and we can't get the support to kill this all together so we'll make ridiculous regulations that serve no purpose other than to stifle the industry.

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I understand that the OP made a broad comment about regulation, however, you took it to exaggerated extremes and were in fact wrong in many of your statements and assumptions. A prime example is the monopolization of the banking industry. Originally banks were not allowed to cross state lines, federal regulation had to be enacted to allow this. Many states opposed this. You can blame Clinton and Bush for allowing the mergers but the regulation that allowed that process to begin with was just that a regulation NOT the lack of.

xmacro

Just wanna say I'm loving this debate Carry on, gents.

Amos Umwhat

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kuzi16

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madurofan

dup post.

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kuzi16:

[we have long passed those laws and we are now into regulations that strangle business.

This is the only place I disagree with you. We have long since passed MOST of these laws. People continue to come up with new ways to screw people, the environment, other businesses.

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madurofan

You do have to respect the man for standing his ground, more or less 3 on 1.

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beatnic

Human ingenuity will always find ways around government regulations until the government passes so many that is is totalitarian. They have to erase the individual human mind. We are Borg!

clearlysuspect

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beatnic:

Human ingenuity will always find ways around government regulations until the government passes so many that is is totalitarian. They have to erase the individual human mind. We are Borg!

Nice. I like it. "He loved Big Brother" might have worked better though.

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