10-31-2007, 05:25 PM | #11 |
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I hate the government because, by its nature, government uses force to take things from me that are mine. I generally don't mind when the purpose is on I approve of but I approve of so few purposes that I'm generally pissed at the government.
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10-31-2007, 05:35 PM | #13 |
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People who don't trust the government should be most willing to pitch in for the common good because if they're being principled they must recognize that it falls on private institutions including churches fill in the gap if the welfare state is reduced. One reason I disagree with you is that people who favor pervasive government intervention are often themselves lacking material means, which may explain the attraction to them of equalizing distribution of wealth, and so they have less personally to offer the common good.
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10-31-2007, 05:41 PM | #15 |
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True. The more government engages in social engineering, the fatter the codes grow, the more extensive and entrenched become the bureauacracies, and the greater need for lawyers to find or cut a path through the thickets. Strict products liability, CERCLA, EPA regs, burgeoning work-place regulations, punitive damages, regulation of tobacco manufacturers, trade regulations and barriers, food and drug regulations, Civil Rights acts, consumer and securities class actions, antitrust laws, securities regulations, etc. etc. all represent endless riches for lawyers. Laissez faire would be disastrous to our profession.
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10-31-2007, 05:53 PM | #17 |
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Those statistics re what percentage of response costs went to lawyers and consultants are staggering. Something like 90%, most of it paid for by hapless insurance companies who issued policies when there was no such thing as RCRA or CERCLA. I miss the RCRA and CERCLA golden years.
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I'm a lawyer because it pays a lot of money. If it didn't, I would be something else.
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