Bad for business
Commentary
The Great Regulation Charade
September 20, 2011
Cry Wolf Quotes
The proposal couldn't be better calculated to drive business out of the city and encourage corruption.
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Editorial, Boston Herald.
Finally, you should be appraised of the need for security and secrecy to research and develop products. In many, many instances, such security would be unattainable under Bill 270. The lack of privacy and security would strike the hardest at our great and large corporations which research and develop most of the new products which enhance our health and quality of living.
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Thacher Longstreth, president of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and former Republican city councilman
It is almost impossible to sell any real property in New York City at the present time at its assessed value.
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Op-ed by George W. Olvany, special counsel to the Real Estate Board.
[It would not be possible] to achieve the control levels specified in the bill . . .[M]anufacturers . . . would be forced to shut down.
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American Automobile Manufacturers Association, Testimony, Senate Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution.
