*** The Official MAGAposting thread ***

[Jack Sawyer]

Kind of important for the Environmental Protection Agency to, you know, protect the environment right?

Spending countless hours researching and analyzing a vast trove of material on the effect of human activity on climate change kind of sounds like to be their goddamn job


Imagine if they'd actually had to work

[Poopadoop]

Kind of important for the Environmental Protection Agency to, you know, protect the environment right?

Spending countless hours researching and analyzing a vast trove of material on the effect of human activity on climate change kind of sounds like to be their goddamn job


Imagine if they'd actually had to work

Yes, but protecting the environment requires having and enforcing regulations, and that would be bad for business, and ergo bad for stock market, and ergo bad for the common man. Just because e.g., Flint doesn't have clean drinking water doesn't mean the common man isn't benefiting; you have to see the big picture. Like with the tax cuts that help the wealthy, removing regulations makes life better for everyone.

[wufwugy]

Yes, but protecting the environment requires having and enforcing regulations, and that would be bad for business, and ergo bad for stock market, and ergo bad for the common man. Just because e.g., Flint doesn't have clean drinking water doesn't mean the common man isn't benefiting; you have to see the big picture. Like with the tax cuts that help the wealthy, removing regulations makes life better for everyone.

Do you believe this is an accurate characterization of views about effects of regulation?

[Poopadoop]

Do you believe this is an accurate characterization of views about effects of regulation?

It is of my views yes.

Waiting for the counterargument that with their increased income those people can afford to buy bottled water, fucking sissies.

[wufwugy]

It is of my views yes.

Thanks for the reply.

I don't know anybody who holds the view in question.

Since I know a lot of people who are said to hold that view in question, and because I have put a great deal of thought into the view, if I may present what I think the real view is:

Regulations by monopolies hurt the common man because the regulations are not subject to a robust trial and error mechanic.

The stock market is an effect more than a cause. Theory on this is not perfect, yet there isn't yet anything better. The relationship between stocks and the "real world" is that stock values represent a close approximation of information in the real world. Indices do not perfectly align with the "real world", but performance is still top notch.

Flint not having clean drinking water is terrible for the common man. In terms of applying fault usefully, monopoly regulation is at fault.

"Tax cuts that help the wealthy" is a misunderstanding journalists perpetuate. A good rule of thumb is to not listen to anything the media says about taxes. They don't know.

[Poopadoop]

Also, lolz