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Saturday, July 09, 2005

The Going-Out-of-Business Myth

The public needs regulatory safeguards to protect our health, safety, environment, civil rights, and welfare. Corporate special interests, however, have an interest in avoiding spending a single dime to improve their destructive behavior. Again and again, when new regulatory protections have been proposed, corporate lobbyists have argued that business would be bankrupted and forced to go out of business. Again and again, they have been proven wrong.

Download our fact sheet "The Going-Out-of-Business Myth" to learn just how wrong they have been time and time again.

Posted by Robert Shull



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