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Fines like this are mostly pointless, a cost of doing business. If governments want to stop being defrauded by corporations, they need to respond with criminal
by MiddleEndian 9y ago
Fines like this are mostly pointless, a cost of doing business.
If governments want to stop being defrauded by corporations, they need to respond with criminal penalties like imprisonment, the same as they would to a regular citizen.
- utternerd 9y agoWe throw people in jail far too often as it is, and you want to add to the prison population for something that didn't harm anyone? I honestly don't follow. If this were executives covering up the harmful effects of their product on humans, I'd agree. The Government makes the vast majority of their money off corporate profits, so they have a vested interest in seeing them succeed.
- MiddleEndian 9y agoI do agree that we throw people in jail too often, but if we're going to let corporations straight up lie for a low price, what we're charging is a usage fee, not a penalty.