Bad for business
Commentary
The Great Regulation Charade
September 20, 2011
Cry Wolf Quotes
I do not believe in legislation so radical that it means an attack on the valuation of real estate or driving out of our state manufacturing concerns or other large business enterprises.
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Governor Martin Glynn (D) sides with the business interests, signaling the Factory Investigating Commission’s declining power.
[There is] no doubt that it [TEFRA] will curb the economic recovery everyone wants.
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 1982.
The technology to meet these standards simply does not exist today…[and we predict] major supply disruptions.
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Mobil, House Committee on Energy and Commerce. October, 1990.
You can no longer distinguish the real estate owner by the smile of prosperity, because his property is now a burden and a liability instead of a comfort and a source of income. To own a factory building in New York City is now a calamity.
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Op-ed by George W. Olvany, special counsel to the Real Estate Board.

