Quote:
Originally Posted by DaddyHalbucks
The libertarian argument against the EPA is not that environmental vigilance is unnecessary.
The argument is that a property rights approach is more effective and more honest way to deal with environmental problems.. as opposed to a big government/ bureaucratic/ political/ top down approach.
In others words: you pollute, and your neighbors will sue.
|
So all the money now spent on the EPA will have to be spent on maintaining a vastly larger legal system and handling an endless stream of lawsuits. The corporations will be stripped of teh protections of regulation and juries will decide what's pollution and ehat isn't.
And a whole new body of regulations constructed to make sure the legal system is fair and commonly available to all.
And everybody will have to study law all the time.
I like it. Everybody will have to get much smarter, fast, or be destroyed in the courts, and that has to be good.
This was always my favorite part of libertarian theory - lawsuits instead of regulations. Nobody will be able to do anything, but the insurers against lawsuits will get rich as midas. It will drive the corporations out of the country faster than anything you could do.