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Pastimes : THE SLIGHTLY MODERATED BOXING RING
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To: TigerPaw who wrote (9566)4/18/2002 7:38:53 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 21057
 

I don't think any major regulation contributes more harm.

What about trade barriers, agricultural subsidies, regulations that require new pesticides to meat such extremely strong standards that older more dangerous pesticides are used instead (I haven't looked in to that one in a few years it may have changed), things like Communications Decency Act, and the Security Systems Standards and Certification Act (http://www.eff.org/alerts/20010921_eff_sssca_alert.html) and regulations that disallowed export of encryption products (which just lost business for US software companies because foreign countries can make encryption products as well). How about wage and price controls in the 70s, and regulations limiting the rise in oil prices that led to the gas lines back then. Rent control is another area of regulation that deserves a lot of abuse. The regulation on milk pricing are similarly stupid. I'd add gun control but I doubt that you would agree with me on that one.

OSHA also makes a lot of stupid regulations. I'm not saying that we should have no regulations on workplace safety but OSHA isn't exactly a golden example of a well run intelligent and sensible government regulatory body.

Tim

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