I know Dr. Paul is not for eliminating the EPA...in the short run. But critics always bring it up as something that Libertarians believe in doing eventually. Now, I've been fending off some opposition in a forum for days, but all the research has drained me and I'm not as eloquent on legal issues as others are. Now, I say that the environment should be handled under property rights and people, either with a class action or with lobbying the city should use the courts to file suit. Someone brought up..well what if it is an isolated town where no one lives? I said it shouldn't matter because lawsuits can be filed anywhere. Now here's the latest response. Now, just as a reminder..I'm not totally clueless to the answers, I'd just like to give eloquent and well put answers so they can't play 'gotcha', lol.
Here's the post:
Any help is appreciated, I've been fending off about a dozen statists and I'm a bit exhausted dealing with them1. Why would people from far away file a suit? As I said, pollution is generally a local issue.
2. I would think a small group of people filing suit against a billion dollar company probably wouldn't go well. Just a hunch though.
3. Who would pay for all these law suits? What would prevent a company from going to a lower income area to exploit the lack of resistance due to lack of money?
4. What would prevent a company from knowingly acting irresponsibly for years, losing a law suit and filing bankruptcy to stick the public with the mess? A legal judgement doesn't clean up the damage (and yes, I'm aware of the EPA Superfund sites that exist due to this same issue).
I can't finance a legal battle against a Fortune 500 company.
At least the EPA is indirectly controlled by the people. I know it's not the most effective way of handling this but I really don't see how turning this over the corporations and saying "sue if you don't like it" is a reasonable solution or even an improvement.
How many countries have successfully enacted what you're proposing for a solution?
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