Nosmo King
Gold Member
Given the opportunity to keep a clean and sanitary workplace, some employers simply will not due to the cost and time involved. They will still pack your bacon and bologna, but you have to assume the risk of food toxins. And the motivation is simply profit. Bad food producers, without government over site, would very safely assume that your e coli could never be traced to their particular plant because some Conservative lobbied hard to rid the manufacturer of regulation. Where's your lawsuit going now?How much bigger would you like to grow the government? Your questions are nonsense in the first place. Government does not, and never has exacted social policies for the good of the people OR done them in a fashion that works.
Food and drug safety can be done simply through the market. Considering the FDA allows more harmful drugs to hit the market without any accountability on their part or the part of the manufacturer, i wouldnt call that success or rolling back society.
Engineering is better left to the private sector.
Environmental hazards are better left to persecution for abuse and fraud by existing laws.
Workplace safety and child labor laws are also nonsense and need no oversight by government except in the cases of abuse, fraud or breach of contract.
Are you, as the parent of an infant with respiratory diseases, going to monitor the emissions of the factory down the street? Can you afford it? Do you know what sampling methodology to use? Where's your lawsuit now?
Are you, as a resident of a one mill town, going to shut down operations and therefore livelihoods of the majority of you neighbors after you lost your hand in a poorly designed machine?
If you want to take away all the power regular people have to keep themselves safe and healthy at the hands of the factory owners and their myriad stock holders, why would you just cede all those protections to those who commit the infractions? It's like having Clyde Barrow as your chief of security at the bank.
You would have all these protections placed in the courts. Isn't that just the state protecting you after the harm is done? What's more beneficial: an annual check up or an autopsy?