Notice there's not a single thought of asking the consumers which laws need rewrites!
The businesses will surely complain about truth in advertising laws, product liability laws, employee safety responsibility, etc.
How do the Democrats keep losing? The Republicans are a walking talking hypocrisy. It's so easy to call them out on EVERYTHING and yet, they persist as a party of the little people despite the fact that I can't think of thing they've done for the little people, a thing that they've fought for for the little people since Richard Nixon (he gave us the EPA and OSHA...give credit where it's due)
No, the consumers don't get fucked over every chance possible. And I think what pisses me off even more is that there's no real cultural memory of how it used to be anymore. You have people who are so fucking retarded they refuse to vaccinate their children thinking that the VACCINES are the problem and not the diseases they prevent. Those diseases with those cutesy names like measles, mumps, whooping cough, and polio are dangerous, extremely contagious, and sometimes DEADLY. Vaccines aren't perfect and I'm sorry if your kid was adversely affected but it was determined long ago that sacrificing a few so that all could survive without exposure was more important. The public's need to not be exposed to deadly pathogens overrides your desires.
Consumers don't remember being sold products whose additives were not disclosed or even proven safe for consumption. Paint used to have lead because it made the colors brighter (among other reasons which given the even then-known dangers of lead are unjustifiable). You risked your mental health for a brighter yellow or white. Imagine that! Candy too used to have heavy metal additives for the same reason (in the comment section of the link). You had treatments and cures being peddled whose ingredients had not been tested to see if they actually worked and may in fact have done more harm than good. (for some reason, they're all over the vitamin section in supermarkets again with the hard-to-find disclaimer "THIS PRODUCT HAS NOT BEEN EVALUATED BY THE FDA AND IS NOT INTENDED TO DIAGNOSE, TREAT, OR CURE ANY DISEASE"). Factories were full of dangerous equipment with non-existent to minimal safety standards (lost your arm?, you're fired). Food safety was virtually non-existent. But because we were born into these standards, we can hardly be blamed for assuming they were always around. However, we would be wrong in assuming that they are sacrosanct.
Okay, I'm drifting in this rant, so I'll stop now. :-)
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