Quote: The government places regulations on businesses including minimum wage regulations, OSHA regulations, EPA regulation, Hiring practice Regulatations etc. Do you support any of these government interventions?
I do support them to a degree. And notice the word DEGREE. Too much or too little of anything is bad of course. If you do not support any of the above regulations you truly are a nutcase. I don't want our country going back to sweatshop conditions. I do not want companies flagrantly allowed to throw pollutants in the river to get in my drinking water or spoil my property. The countries I see on TV without any EPA regualtion are the ones with literally turds running down the middle of the street. I want my airline pilot to have so many hours off between flights(etc). Do you want your children in a daycare center without any licensing and control?
See your analogy is lost on me. I didn't put my kid in a daycare center. She doesn't go to a government indoctrination center either.
EPA Regulations have been a joke for years. Catalytic converters were supposed to help the environment by reducing pollution. The dirty little secret is now they don't know what to do with them once they have gone past being useful because they are so contaminated.
Some idiot in the government made it mandatory that we have some stupid additive in gasoline that helps reduce emissions, however this additive has whole new kind of pollution that gets into and poisons the water table.
I think it was P.J. O'Roruke who said it best: "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
They [government] have taken what sounds like laudable goals like food safety and pollution reduction and turned it into a giant money sucking vacuum that can never get full enough.