[Dane]

If my way of cutting costs was dumping toxic waste into a river then I think the government has every right to step in.

Sheesh, non-sequiter hyperbole. Where has anyone mentioned toxic waste?

Hoover thought the same things about keeping the government out of the Depression and look what that got us

Yep the Smoot-Hawley tariffs Hoover signed in 1930, helped worsen the depression by starting a trade war.

[lelio]

Sheesh, non-sequiter hyperbole. Where has anyone mentioned toxic waste?

Right here:
[ Dane ]: how would you feel if a government beureaucrat said you couldn't.

And I brought up a point where the government should step in, mainly to show that there is a role for government in business.
Perhaps you didn't like the example. How about "you can employ prisoners in communist China for $1/hr, should you be allowed to?"

[lelio]

Yep the Smoot-Hawley tariffs Hoover signed in 1930, helped worsen the depression by starting a trade war.

So the Depression was worsened because Americans couldn't buy goods from other countries? Do you have any facts to back that up?