The Dirty Secret
Really big businesses DO NOT like capitalism in the pure form. It is much more effective to leverage campaign donations in to legal assassination of your business rivals.
The nation’s biggest toy maker, Mattel Inc., is getting another exemption on federal safety rules even as smaller companies struggle with testing costs imposed after a rash of Mattel toy recalls in 2007.
Under the law passed after the recalls, the makers of children’s products must perform independent third-party tests for lead, lead paint and other potential dangers.
On Friday, however, the Consumer Product Safety Commission voted unanimously to approve Mattel’s request to use two more of its own company laboratories for the third-party checks on its toys. …
This is where both political parties fail us. We haven’t had true capitalism since the mid-twenties at least.
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