I actually wonder what the polling on this is. Like do rank and file conservatives actually hate environmental protection so much that this is popular?
Or is it just that cutting the budget broadly is super popular with them but cutting any service in particular is super unpopular so this is the least-bad option for cutting the budget?
Koch family spent millions (billion?) buying out most republican politicians specifically because that was cheaper than not polluting.
The core argument is “epa is anti business” and they’ve convinced the moronic voters that pollution/climate change doesn’t really affect them. And the regulations are just about paperwork
(Pollution does, of course, but the charges are for not maintaining records or self reporting- because it’s impossible to prove that they’re polluting when nobody is actually measuring that- they ripped out the meters-)
Yeah the epa is anti business though. That’s why I’m anti business. Fuckers poisoned the air, dirt, water, and our fucking bodies. It doesn’t have to be anti business though, but businesses choose to make it so
protecting Americans is not anti-business. polluting the environment around you- including neighborhoods with kids- is anti-American and they should get wrecked.
Actually, yes. American conservatives equate caring for the environment with homosexuality and godlessness.
I was born and raised in the south and was brainwashed as a southern baptist. Conservatives hate conservation, unless it’s saving some kills for next hunting season.
Conservatives will pollute just for the sake of polluting. They delight in “rolling coal”, burning trash and pouring motor oil on anything green. They see polluting as an insult to non-conservatives. Conservatives are as grotesque as you imagine them to be.
It’s popular because the EPA is pretty shit at enforcing rules against large companies, so they mostly bully small and medium size businesses. There’s also a sentiment that recent regulation is more about control than saving the environment.
I actually wonder what the polling on this is. Like do rank and file conservatives actually hate environmental protection so much that this is popular?
Or is it just that cutting the budget broadly is super popular with them but cutting any service in particular is super unpopular so this is the least-bad option for cutting the budget?
Koch family spent millions (billion?) buying out most republican politicians specifically because that was cheaper than not polluting.
The core argument is “epa is anti business” and they’ve convinced the moronic voters that pollution/climate change doesn’t really affect them. And the regulations are just about paperwork
(Pollution does, of course, but the charges are for not maintaining records or self reporting- because it’s impossible to prove that they’re polluting when nobody is actually measuring that- they ripped out the meters-)
Yeah the epa is anti business though. That’s why I’m anti business. Fuckers poisoned the air, dirt, water, and our fucking bodies. It doesn’t have to be anti business though, but businesses choose to make it so
are they anti-business? or are they Pro-American?
protecting Americans is not anti-business. polluting the environment around you- including neighborhoods with kids- is anti-American and they should get wrecked.
It’s popular to business why is why it keeps happening and gets bipartisan support on occasion as well.
I mean nixon put it together, if that asshole can do the math in like 1969/70 it shouldn’t be hard to do today.
I can’t speak for the average repub but I do know my parents, life long conservatives, absolutely fucking hate environmentalists. 🤷
Actually, yes. American conservatives equate caring for the environment with homosexuality and godlessness.
I was born and raised in the south and was brainwashed as a southern baptist. Conservatives hate conservation, unless it’s saving some kills for next hunting season.
Conservatives will pollute just for the sake of polluting. They delight in “rolling coal”, burning trash and pouring motor oil on anything green. They see polluting as an insult to non-conservatives. Conservatives are as grotesque as you imagine them to be.
It’s popular because the EPA is pretty shit at enforcing rules against large companies, so they mostly bully small and medium size businesses. There’s also a sentiment that recent regulation is more about control than saving the environment.