Your Tax Dollars at the EPA

You can complain all you like about regs killing business, especially designed to kill small business, because the reg makers simply will never listen.  Like the old monopoly phone company, "we don't care, we don't have to."

“Rather than recruit someone with the requisite experience, Brenner sought out Beale in what appears to be a decision based solely on their personal friendship rather than any experience or credentials,” said conclusions of the report by Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

The Republicans want good government?  So when yet another scamster is exposed, we are told this person, the highest paid, really had no effect...

“The standards followed the routine open, transparent and public process, providing opportunities for public and interagency review and comment prior to their finalization.”
Republican investigators said Beale “took ownership” of the EPA 1997 national air quality standards, though much of the underlying data remain secret.

So a process can be transparent while the rationale is secret?  Never mind, nothing will change. The problem is people actually have to live under these regulations.  You cannot get clean air by regulation. You get it by law.  The automobile is an invention.  It can be improved to be zero emission.  It can be replaced with mag lev.  Both would occur if property rights were enforced, with its bundle of rights.  Instead we get an agency where pollution is codified and made permanent.  Only anarchists can keep the air clean.

Why throw the guy in jail?  Set up a truth commission, and let him name names and tell tales, and as long as he tells all he'll be free.  In time, so many people will cross-rat out each other that we'll all have a better idea of reality.  Throwing people in jail shuts them up.   After losing so much money on some one, why throw good money after bad.  Let's 'em sing.

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