Sunday, April 14, 2013

"Free marketers" rail against free markets again

"Think Those Chemicals Have Been Tested?" Ian Urbina, New York Times, 2013-04-13

Think again!  "[T]he overwhelming majority of chemicals in use today have never been independently tested for safety."

The American Chemistry Council "has also argued that the bill risks raising costs, squelching innovation and putting American companies at a competitive disadvantage."  Raising whose costs?  The industry's costs or those of individuals and health insurance companies?

So much for the full information of a free market and once again "this order of men" seeks to "deceive and oppress the public".

See"Humpty Dumpty and Free Markets" and "The Invisible Adam Smith".