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Old 06-29-2013, 08:27 AM   #95
SteveEisenberg
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And who created these "loopholes" and "opportunity" and enabled those "schemes" and "influence" to begin with? Your politicians and legislators. Go blame them.
In the case where companies are playing off the rules of one country against another, even a planet governed by excellent national politicians and legislators couldn't coordinate between nations to avoid all loopholes.

In the case of the US, why not blame voters for electing politicians who trumpet adherence to principle and attack the other party? You can't elect that kind and expect them to turn around and act non-partisan the next day. I also blame the framers of the constitution for creating a bicameral legislature. (Go Nebraska!) If different parties control them, as now, there's no way to pass anything without opening up the legislators to charges of flip-flopping.

Consider the Amazon warehouse air-conditioning issue a few years ago. An Allentown newspaper found bad conditions for unorganized workers. Should Amazon have waited for Congress to pass a law making fines for hot facilities higher than the cost of improving the warehouses? Or was it more reasonable for Amazon to made correcting the situation a valid corporate function, as they did?

There's a place for the law, but there's also a place for public pressure, and there's even a place for comproming the bottom line in the cause of common decency even before there's public pressure.

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