Bad for business
Commentary
The Great Regulation Charade
September 20, 2011
Cry Wolf Quotes
AB 606 singles out one industry and places additional requirements on employers in that industry.
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Governor Schwarzenegger veto message.
We don’t think it adequately protects proprietary information. Competing companies will be looking with a careful eye to acquire that information. Chemists and analysts could pick up one of those sheets and say ‘Aha! So that’s what they’re using!”
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James Mortford, executive director of the Chemical Industry Council of New Jersey.
To me it is just damned incompetent to consider legislation without knowing what the cost is going to be. In business we couldn’t do this. We couldn’t have jobs if we ran our business that kind of way.
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Russell Hurst, president of VIZ Manufacturing Company. President of the W.N. Stevenson Company and representative of the Northeastern Chemical Distributors Council.
[T]his bill could prevent continued production of automobiles . . . [and] is a threat to the entire American economy and to every person in America.
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Lee Iacocca, executive vice president of Ford Motor Company, 1970.
