Makers Are Pushing Back on Toxic-Toy Law

Wall Street Journal ^ | March 5, 2009 | Joseph Pereira

[reaganaut1]

What a waste. I don't think Congress even tries to balance the benefits of the laws it passes against the costs to consumers and businesses. I really doubt that most of these products that are going to be destroyed are dangerous to children. Besides, isn't needlessly throwing stuff away bad for the environment?

[GovernmentShrinker]

President Obama could score a lot of points by issuing an executive order barring enforcement of this idiotic law.

[cripplecreek]

Mixed feelings.

Personally I think we would be a lot better off making things here where we have better control at the start of the process rather than the end.

[edge10]

What a damn shame.

What’s the world coming to when the Chinese can’t poison our children and pets.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

The toy makers should instead come out and advocate using toxics in toys, indeed more potent ones; claiming that they would just be performing abortions that were missed earlier. I think that’s a line of reasoning that would resonate better with this administration.

[monday]

The toy makers and their employees should have a class action suit against the consumers groups for making the govt. change it's policies putting them out of business and out of work. Make the douches that caused this pay the costs.

[Oldpuppymax]

Ah yes. The left destroying free enterprise. Er I mean, environmentalists safeguarding our chirrun!

[MrB]

I think many who push these laws know exactly what the consequences will be.

Leftists HATE private charity. They don’t control what gets donated or who it benefits.

[faloi]

Not to mention all the people in the US that hand-make children’s goods. There’s been a lot of discussion among some craft-types about how far reaching this ill-planned law goes.

[VRWCmember]

I didn’t click the link and read the whole article, but did it mention the fact that many children’s books printed between 1950 and 1985 must be subjected to extensive and costly testing (around $300 to $600 PER BOOK) before they can be handled by children under the age of 12? As a result of this provision, many local libraries (and even school libraries) will have to dispose of most of their children’s books and/or ban children under the age of 12 from the library.

[VRWCmember]

Link: Feds Call For Lead Testing Of All Children's Books

[TexanByBirth]

You hit the nail on the head!

I think many who push these laws know exactly what the consequences will be.

The person who pushed this was none other than that A-hole Henry Waxman.

Leftists HATE private charity. They don’t control what gets donated or who it benefits.

Not to mention that many of the charities that run thrift stores are religious based. Democrats don't want religious organizations helping people, they believe that is the governments job.

[1010RD]

illegal levels

That is the key. These are man-made threats, that is they have been made illegal and not because they are truly toxic or pose a real threat, but because our lawmakers have deemed it so.

Dose makes the poison.

This is the continued destruction of our free market system by government.

What is communism? The CPSC is run by 3 people. 3 people decide for 300 million.

That is communism. Thank Nixon, though, the CPSC came with his administration. We've been rolling down hill towards the gutter for a long time.

[1010RD]

This is the reason we don’t make these things here. Too much unnecessary regulation.

If only the Constitution had Congress meet once every 2 years, then we’d be only half as bad off as today.

They’ve systematically driven American businesses off shore. Obama is just accelerating the process.

[1010RD]

You don’t need to read all that old knowledge. You and your children will read the “modern classics”, only.

[mysterio]

Just make the damned toys here in the states and charge an extra buck for them. People will pay it.

[MrB]

Democrats don't want religious organizations helping people, they believe that is the governments job.

And that is a big reason for the "charity gap" between liberals and conservatives - it lets government off the hook

[Blood of Tyrants]

Another example of how the government screws up everything it touches.

[cripplecreek]

Too much unnecessary regulation.

And the flipside is that there isn't enough necessary regulation where the stuff is often made. Unfortunately Zero is setting America up for a permanent fall. FDA regulation of Tobacco will effectively eliminate that industry (and the social medicine that it's tax is supposed to support) and the EPA is going to regulate dust from farm fields and put them out of business. The peanut industry is pretty much done now because nobody bothered to report that lab workers from the tainted peanut plant testified that the peanuts came from China.

[1010RD]

That is the nature of government regulation - destructive, collusive and wrong.

What is necessary regulation? Can you be specific? I am just curious about your opinion.