“Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.” PeopleGivingShouldLittlesJobsAirMinesStandardsLaborShould HavePaidSafetyEnvironmentalProtectionCorporationsRegulationCrushedChokeFilthyEnvironmental Protection Author:Richard Trumka
“Africa's informal economy is one of the most innovative and inventive environments in the world. Yet it is an environment with little regulation in which workers are often exposed to hard conditions and live without a safety net.” WorldLittlesHardEconomyEnvironmentConditionsSafetyWorkersExposedRegulationInnovativeSafety Net Author:Richard Attias
“regulation is useful and proper, when aimed at the prevention of fraud or contrivance, manifestly injurious to other kinds of production, or to the public safety, and not at prescribing the nature of the products and the methods of fabrication.” KindProductsSafetyMethodProductionsFraudRegulationPreventionFabricationPublic SafetyPrescribing Book:A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth Source: A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth
“State capitalism is about more than emergency government spending, implementation of more intelligent regulation, or a stronger social safety net. It's about state dominance of economic activity for political gain.” StatesGovernmentPoliticalSocialEconomicActivityCapitalismGainsStrongerIntelligentSafetySpendingRegulationEmergenciesDominanceImplementationSafety NetGovernment Spending Author:Ian Bremmer
“Cars, toys, aspirin, meat, toasters, water - nearly every product sold has passed basic safety regulations well in advance of being marketed and sold. But consumer credit is a kind of buyer-beware, wild west. That is partly the result of history.” WellsKindWaterResultsCarProductsSafetyWestCreditConsumersMeatRegulationToysBuyersAspirinWild WestToasters Author:Elizabeth Warren
“We don't really have any that protect the food supply from farm to table. We have a food safety system that's piecemeal, largely divided between two agencies that don't talk to each other very much. Neither agency can enforce regulations from the farm to the table.” TwoProtectSafetyTablesAgencyDividedFarmsRegulationFood SafetyFood Supply Author:Marion Nestle
“John Stuart Mill believed that the only acceptable reason for government to limit a person's liberty was to prevent him from causing unacceptable harm to others. Mill was not a libertarian, but many libertarians are quick to cite this principle when arguing against a regulation that they oppose. And I believe most thoughtful libertarians are prepared to embrace something fairly close to Mill's harm principle. But accepting that principle implies accepting many of the institutions of the modern welfare state that libertarians have vigorously opposed in the past, such as safety regulation.” BelievePersonsStatesReasonGovernmentPastI BelieveLibertyAcceptingPrinciplesModernLimitsSafetyInstitutionsEmbracePreparedHarmLibertarianArguingWelfareThoughtfulAcceptableRegulationMillsWelfare StateCiting Author:Robert H. Frank
“If you are a gun manufacturer, the product you make is not subject to safety regulation by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Toy guns are subject to safety regulation; water pistols are, but not real guns.” IfsRealWaterSubjectsProductsGunSafetyConsumersRegulationToysPistolsGun SafetyToy Guns Author:Michael D. Barnes
“As state and federal lawmakers debate the country's energy policies and Colorado's role in the ever-expanding energy economy, let's hope they remember that unnecessary regulations stifle growth while doing nothing for public safety or health.” CountryStatesRememberEnergyGrowthRolesEconomyPolicySafetyDebateRegulationUnnecessaryExpandingDoing NothingColoradoLawmakersPublic SafetyEnergy Policy Author:Bob Beauprez
“The history of government regulation of food safety is one of government watchdogs chasing the horse after it's out of the barn.” GovernmentCultureFoodHorseSafetyCookingCulinaryRegulationChasingBarnsGovernment RegulationFood Safety Author:David Aaron Kessler
“The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed class that pays almost no taxes; the privatization or elimination of human services; the elimination of public education for low-income people; the easing of restrictions against child labor; the exporting of industries and jobs to low-wage, free-trade countries; the breaking of labor unions; and the elimination of occupational safety and environmental controls and regulations.” PeopleHumansChildrenHas BeensCountryStatesJobsForceGoalUnitedPayClassUnited StatesGrowingPolicyIndustryTaxesLowsLaborThirdsSafetyTradeUnionsEnvironmentalConservativeIncomeForeign PolicyRegulationRestrictionEliminationFree TradePublic EducationLabor UnionLow IncomePrivatizationChild LaborExportingHuman ServiceUnderemployed Author:Michael Parenti
“Corporations complained about [safety] regulations, but let's face it, people walk away from accidents now that would have killed them when I was a kid” PeopleKidsFacesWalksCarSafetyAccidentsCorporationsRegulation Author:Jay Leno
“... immediately call on Congress to pass far-reaching industry regulation like the Firearms Safety and Consumer Protection Act ... [which] would give the Treasury Department health and safety authority over the gun industry, and any rational regulator with that authority would ban handguns.” GivingIndustryAuthorityGunSafetyCongressProtectionRationalConsumersDepartmentReachingRegulationGun ControlBansFirearmsTreasuryBannedHandgunsRegulatorsAnti GunHealth And SafetyGun SafetyHandgun BanGun BanConsumer Protection Author:Josh Sugarmann
“These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws.” MindLawSightSafetyRegulationMinimumRequirementsCoastVesselMinimum WageInspectionCoast GuardOf Sight Out Of Mind Author:Steve Finley
“The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued reams of playground regulations and actually gone so far as to recommend against "tripping hazards, like tree stumps and rocks." Maybe we should just bulldoze the local parks and put in a couple of blobs... made of plastic.” ShouldMadeNatureGoneTreeRocksProductsCoupleSafetyLocalsConsumersParksRegulationPlasticHazardsPlaygroundsStumpsTripping Author:Lenore Skenazy
“It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines.” SchoolFineMassRedSafetyGreenNervousRegulationTapeRed TapeHealth And SafetyLeavers Author:Nigel Farage
“You have safety and soundness as primary purpose of the Federal Reserve, the OCC, and the other agencies which control banking regulation.” PurposeSafetyPrimariesAgencyRegulationReservesBankingFederal ReserveSoundness Author:Judd Gregg