The party-line vote marked the first time in the 55-year history of the Clean Air Act that Congress has moved to weaken the power of the landmark environmental law.
If people don’t want these things in their air, why don’t they just vote with their wallets and NOT BUY products that create these byproducts, or move to a place that better suits their snowflake-lungs?
Worst case, if you develop cancer after 5 years of exposure, you can exercise your right to sue the company for damages and be made whole again.
We don’t need government hamstringing industry when the free market can sort these things out!
Fucking poe’s law. I thought you were serious until the last sentence. Even the idea of being made whole isn’t something beyond what some fuckers would claim.
You will actually get some hardcore libertarians unironically making the argument that regulations are completely unnecessary as long as you have a strong court system to award damages in the event that harm is actually done to an individual.
Which, sure, in a frictionless, spherical universe full of perfectly rational actors that exists only in a textbook, maybe that argument has some merit.
In the real world it means arguing that disfiguring people or giving them horrific terminal cancer should just be a line item on your ledger, next to rent and breakroom coffee.
If people don’t want these things in their air, why don’t they just vote with their wallets and NOT BUY products that create these byproducts, or move to a place that better suits their snowflake-lungs?
Worst case, if you develop cancer after 5 years of exposure, you can exercise your right to sue the company for damages and be made whole again.
We don’t need government hamstringing industry when the free market can sort these things out!
/s (because who the fuck knows these days)
Fucking poe’s law. I thought you were serious until the last sentence. Even the idea of being made whole isn’t something beyond what some fuckers would claim.
You will actually get some hardcore libertarians unironically making the argument that regulations are completely unnecessary as long as you have a strong court system to award damages in the event that harm is actually done to an individual.
Which, sure, in a frictionless, spherical universe full of perfectly rational actors that exists only in a textbook, maybe that argument has some merit.
In the real world it means arguing that disfiguring people or giving them horrific terminal cancer should just be a line item on your ledger, next to rent and breakroom coffee.