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Originally posted by Lord Vader:
...We need to remember that Eminent Domain is not the only way that the Government steals property from people and Big Businesses also steal Property without using Eminent Domain and yet you [b]airforce wants to remove all laws that help to keep Businesses from hurting People.

Interesting, for you Eminent Domain is BAD but a Business stealing a persons property because some Seeds blew onto a Farmer's land, well it is a different thing....[/b]
Yes, I am in favor of removing all laws regulating business, because they are superfluous. There are civil remedies for businesses that negligently harm someone. And these civil remedies have the effect of deterring reckless practices. (Criminal laws still apply for intentional acts.)

As an example of how this works, suppose a company accidentally (or even intentionally) dumps 100 tons of chicken poop into a river. Well, that is a trespass against every property owner downstream, and each property owner is entitled to sue for damages. That can get pretty expensive for a company pretty quickly.

So who will oversee the company, to lessen the likelihood of such a spill? The company will, and so will the company's insurance provider. If the insurance provider will be potentially on the hood for millions of dollars, you can bet they will take a look at what the company is doing to prevent these spills.

In short, the free market will regulate itself.

And far better than the government is doing. As an example of this point, OSHA has been in existence for about forty years now. They've performed countless inspections, written countless rules and regulations, and issued hundreds of millions of dollars in fines. How many workplace injuries have they prevented? If you believe the government's own statistics, the answer to that question is...wait for it...

ZERO.

Yep. A worker is just as likely to be injured on the job today as he was forty years ago.

Get government out of business, and let businesses and the civil courts regulate themselves.

Onward and upward,
airforce