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Is Industry For or Against the Paris Climate Agreement? Big Business with government protection against free market competition is FOR it. Small to Medium business (able to compete) is AGAINST it.

Posted by freedomforall 6 years, 10 months ago to Politics
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"Both Elon Musk (of Tesla) and Bob Iger (of Walt Disney) have resigned from an advisory role in the Trump administration in protest of the Paris pullout."
Good riddance to slimy scum that promulgate legislation that loots from everyone else using government power to enrich themselves. Put those jerks in jail for theft.

"So there is a real split here. Large companies are fine with the regulations, and many even advocate them. Smaller companies employing a few hundred people – which constituted 99 percent of the companies in the United States and account for half of private sector employment – are almost universally opposed."

"Big business, for more than 100 years, has been a main lobbying force for more intense government controls over trade, enterprise, labor, and property in general. The reason makes sense of vast amounts of American history: government controls can benefit incumbents in the competitive process and hobble upstarts and aggressive innovators. The large, established businesses can bear the new costs while their smaller competitors cannot."
SOURCE URL: https://fee.org/articles/is-industry-for-or-against-the-paris-climate-agreement


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  • Posted by term2 6 years, 10 months ago
    If they are a hillary or sanders supporter, they are collectivists for sure and definitely not my friends. I have never seen a more accurate and consistent predictor of a person I should avoid. I wish they all would wear armbands so I can identify them without having to ask who they voted for.
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    • Posted by 6 years, 10 months ago
      Be careful what you wish for, term. When a herd pf people start irrationally calling others fascists, its likely they are looking in the mirror.
      I agree they are not friends of liberty regardless of how genteel they appear. Many are not evil, but they are so brainwashed they can't recognize evil regardless of the evidence. Rational thought is a subject they failed.
      They should wear a t-shirt with that motto: "I failed rational thought 101" or "Rational thought- who needs it."
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  • Posted by chad 6 years, 10 months ago
    If the government were unable to restrain free trade there would be no Paris Climate Agreement, or it would be completely ineffectual. Industry would not try to influence government because there would be no influence (use of force to control others) to be had. I do not think Trump's withdrawal will be any more effective than his pretend hate for Obamacare and his promise to overthrow it. While he may postulate and pretend the results are expected to be the same.
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  • Posted by jimjamesjames 6 years, 10 months ago
    If someone in a company is FOR the Paris Agreement they are either truly stupid, dupes, or complicit. Period. Same with anyone that believes in catastrophic global warming: stupid, dupes, or complicit.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 6 years, 10 months ago
    It would be good if Trump knew his people better. He should never have hired anyone dumb enough to fall for the 3 card monte they call climate change.
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