A Day in the Life of the Regulatory State

This is CEI's submission to the EPA's "Regulations Matter" video contest. CEI VP Clyde Wayne Crews, Jr. does an extensive report each year on the costs of federal regulations. It's called Ten Thousand Commandments; here's the link. www.cei.org/10kc

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News & Politics

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• EPA;
• regulation;
• CEI;
• Wayne
• Crews;
• statism

[BigWorm242]

@Ilikemustard

Good luck going up against a massive corporate legal team with whatever legal representation you can afford. You can't even do a class-action suit anymore.

[Ilikemustard]

@BigWorm242

a) A business will lose customers if they intentionally release poor products, there is no profit incentive

b) You can sue the business if their product harms you

c) Most state regulations are not to protect the people, they are to protect the big businesses from competition. Execs bribe congressmen and it forms a government-corporation cartel.

[thestinkymonkeh]

Actually, is this a pro consumer protection ad? I'm glad companies are not allowed to lie to me anymore. How do people get so stupid?

[pismo10]

@BigWorm242 Total ignorance....

[BigWorm242]

Regulating products to ensure that you're being sold something that isn't going to kill you is not "the government giving you permission"? Without regulation, what's to keep private companies from selling us anything from snake oil to straight up poison while at the same time telling us that it's that it will cure all of our diseases? Why would anyone be against something that HELPS them?

[hyperseauton]

It's HowTheWorldWorks!!!

At last we get to see Doren's daily routine and learn a little more behind the little man. Shame I had to come over here to consume that content and HowTheWorldWorks does not provide shots of his studio apartment over at his channel.

[MrGengisCohn]

Comment l'état régit votre vie à chaque minute et dans tous les domaines...effrayant.

[GalacticQuadrant3]

Woah, wait a minute. Without big government, all the food sold in this country would be poisonous! Without government regulation, none of the automobiles would work. Without government bureaucracies, there would be no charitable organizations. We NEED big government because otherwise we're all doomed!

The Founding Fathers understood all this. That's why we have taxes and the largest military on the planet. Landru will guide us.

[jetrpg22]

@Timmah420

So the gov. is what honest? Doesn't seek money and votes for control? I mean when the gov. does it i can't say jack but if we all are the entities that enact regulation then that is many more people to buy off.

How about history, look at the only times people as a nation move from meeting their basic needs to worrying almost solely about their higher needs. It only occurs with less central planning and control of paid for by a such a place.

[Timmah420]

@jetrpg22 What exactly is your proof of that? You say the answer is self regulation which has obvious problems, as I've pointed out there is a conflict of interest when you expect a entity whose primary and often only goal is to make money any way possible to police themselves. I could just as easily say the matter is settled against libertarianism because Somalia is a hellhole but we both know that wouldn't be intellectually honest plus there are a ton of other reasons your philosophy is shit.