Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Texas ranchers say ‘forever chemicals’ in waste-based fertilizers ruined their land" video.
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@terransunited It's regulations that GOT us to this point. What we need is to beef up the tort system so that every citizen who is harmed by these chemical dumps and whatnot can sue for damages and WIN.
That doesn't take any kind of law except basic liability. "My dog drank from the river and died from the chemicals you put in it. You owe me $10,000." Or "These dead fish are full of the chemicals you're dumping into the river. You owe me $10,000."
Imagine a company having to protect itself from EVERY possible litigant under strict liability!
The way the system is set up, though, a company can dump whatever the heck it feels like dumping, so long as the government regulations either allow it or haven't gotten around to banning it. You see the problem, here?
The government is a SHIELD for the worst corporations, while it pretends to be protecting the public FROM the robber barons.
This is an old theme. It's been going on since the first 3-letter agencies of the 19th Century. The agencies are always captured, one way or another, by rich people. Rich people LOVE when you create government agencies and regulatory agencies, because then they only have to coerce or bribe a handful of people and get the rules written in such a way as to permit their worst practices!
Free-market solutions, under strict liability and a robust tort system, subjects the big companies to a virtually unlimited number of civil suits. They don't have to be big, class-action suits. Preferably, they're just a large number of small suits. Use the corporations' size against them! Yes, they can swamp any one litigant with 100 lawyers to their 1, but what if it's 100,000 individuals filing nuisance suits of $1,000 or $10,000?
You can't hire enough lawyers to beat all those cases at once. So, if you're up to no good, you're going to suffer the wrath of the people.
The government is a buffer between the people and the delivery of justice on the big corporations.
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