[The Urban Sombrero]

I really don't believe when someone says "limited regulation" they are condoning choking us to death with smoke or turning water into swill. Personally, I view taxation as a regulation. Couple a mind spinning tax code with hundreds and hundreds of new regulations yearly, how can we expect manufacturing to expand here? There's got to be ways of getting our people back to work and it's quite evident taxing and regulating is not the way, right? This is 2016, give the private sector some freedom back and they will figure ways to improve carbon emissions/pollution in fantastic ways on their own. IMO an insentive from government to those that innovate makes more sense than another reg. Could part of the problem be government imposing regulations/penalties that can't feasibly obtained?

I agree that it's not an either/or situation but something's got to give. "Some" pollution for a whole lot of new working taxpayers might not be a bad deal. God's earth is resilliant, as are we. It is time for a reset of some sort to get us back to manufacturing.

Uncuff the private sector for a while and watch them do great things here. I might be the most gullible guy in the world but I just don't think there's many makers and shakers out there looking to pollute their back yard.

I agree with much of what you say here, good points in my view. I do think it worth remembering that, for instance, the "movers and shakers" of Tyson do not live close to the CAFO, nor do the "movers and shakers" of CCA live near the prison. It is clear that many posters here deeply distrust the government. In my view, a healthy skepticism and watchful eye also need be cast upon "movers and shakers," especially, and probably particularly, the ones that know Presidents and policy makers on a first name basis.