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Regulations from previous administrations don't magically disappear at the end of their term.

• tjr225 7y ago
  They don't magically appear under certain administrations either. I'm not sure I understand your point.
• scarface74 7y ago
  It’s not about the regulations, it’s about whether the executive branch chooses to enforce them and how much.
  • BubRoss 7y ago
    That's really not true, you can't run a giant public company and start breaking laws because you think 'the current executive branch won't care'.
    • scarface74 7y ago
      CounterExamples: (And before anyone gets triggered about me talking about politics, please notice that the examples below are referring to both parties in the same light) 1. Selling marijuana is still illegal federally but there are hundreds of companies selling it out in the open in states where it is legal. Neither Republican or Democratic Presidents seem to have much interest in prosecuting them. Yes I know The former attorney general under Trump wanted to start prosecutions but the Republican Congress at the time basically said he couldn’t use funds for it and it went against what even Trump wanted. 2. How many companies were paying illegal immigrants for farm labor and factory work while both Republican and Democratic lawmakers looked the other way until Trump? I am not making a value judgement either way here. 3. Uber
      • BubRoss 7y ago
        Your first example is a contradiction between state law and federal law. Large public companies seemed to stay out of this business for that reason. Your second example was also not something large public companies were doing consistently and I don't think that has changed with a different administration. "Uber" is not any sort of statement or reasoning in support of what you are saying.
        • scarface74 7y ago
          Uber is a national company whose business model was predicated on breaking local laws. The Koch Brothers run multiple national companies and had one of their companies recently raided for employing illegal immigrants. https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-ice-raids-koch-foods-20190816-xrjziewj4zeq3klhnurg2f5jry-story.html https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-ice-raids-koc...
          • BubRoss 7y ago
            > Uber is a national company whose business model was predicated on breaking local laws. Nope > The Koch Brothers run multiple national companies and had one of their companies recently raided for employing illegal immigrants. Are you implying they did this because the previous administration 'did not care' ? That's a large assumption.
            • scarface74 7y ago
              So Uber wasn’t breaking local taxi laws for years? Everyone knows that farmers and companies employing low skill labor have been employing illegal immigrants for decades. Other presidents both Republican and Democrats have looked the other way because both sets of employers would not be able to find enough cheap labor otherwise. No one wants to harm the farm belt because of their outsized electoral college influence.
              • BubRoss 7y ago
                I don't think anything Uber did related to selectively ignoring laws when a new administration took office. How is any of this about large companies not caring about laws because of a new president?
  • nwallin 7y ago
    In most cases, the statute of limitations is longer than the duration of whatever the current administration is.