Last night, Emery Emery promoted this blog on the Skeptically Yours podcast. Great! Now I have to start updating it more! Actually, I looked at the stats and I didn't get any additional views. Maybe when the show becomes available for download.
On the show, one of the guests scoffed at the idea of additional cost for GMO labeling. Emery retorted something to the effect that this guest was right, fuck these corporations. Maybe it was sarcastic, maybe not. My retort during the break was that, even if you hate these corporations, and I don't hate any business based on its wealth, but even if you did, additional regulations here and there add up. One day you wake up and realize that it costs a ton of money to start a business in your country.
It happens.
The skeptical left needs to make sure it doesn't kill off small mom-n-pops in their Grand Pogrom to execute eebil corporations. What can be paid for out of the petty cash vault of a major corporation can be a pretty hefty burden for a small family firm. I am reminded of a recent brouhaha near here where a regulation had an exception for small businesses generating less than $100,000 in net sales. Not net profits, net sales. That's a pathetic sale figure for any business. Local progressive politico behind it didn't care, she's a multi-millionaire. Fuck the working poor apparently.
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