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To: Joe Btfsplk who wrote (930710)	4/16/2016 8:10:15 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574045

" In a sane society they exist solely to grease the skids for enhancing the production and delivery of stuff people want." Yeah; things like domestic tranquility, the common defense, and the general welfare. I understand conservatives don't like taxes. That's life. Oh; and clean air and water. People always want clean air. they don't necessarily want to pay for it, but they do want their air clean. Takes money to get the production and delivery of clean air; takes regulating and inspecting. Left to itself, you get air like this Smog-shrouded view of downtown Los Angeles, looking toward City Hall and the Hall of Justice, on October 7, 1968. The California Air Resources Board, also known as CARB or ARB, is the "clean air agency" in the government of California. Established in 1967 when then-governor Ronald Reagan signed the Mulford-Carrell Act, combining the Bureau of Air Sanitation and the Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Board, CARB is a department within the cabinet-level California Environmental Protection Agency. California is the only state that is permitted to have such a regulatory agency, since it is the only state that had one before the passage of the federal Clean Air Act. Other states are permitted to follow CARB standards, or use the federal ones, but not set their own.[ citation needed] en.wikipedia.org