Regulations are Protections

A top priority of republicans is to slash federal spending on all kinds of regulations, policies, and laws that protect the American people.

Regulations keep our air and water clean, make polluters responsible for reducing emissions and cleaning up toxic messes made by them. Regulations protect consumers by preventing usurious fees by unscrupulous banks and thereby help keep more money in consumers pockets. Anti trust regulations keep corporations from becoming monopolies and injuring a truly free market. If you have some security in retirement because you have Social Security and Medicare, regulations make it so.

These are just three kinds of regulations, environmental, consumer/banking, and retirement/social safety net, that republican working not on behalf of their constituents but on behalf of their billionaire political patrons, want to gut.

There are many other kinds of regulations that support and protect the the American people. So, when republicans talk about how terrible and wasteful government spending is ask yourself, “Who would benefit from such cuts?” Is it the billionaire donors who want to completely escape and disassociate themselves from the social contract that when they participate in it asks them to pay their fair share of taxes and live in society as socially responsible citizens, not as an elite, entitled, ultra rich sliver of the population that desires freedom from any civic responsibility?

Ask yourself, “Would getting rid of the regulations that these republicans are working to eliminate, help or hurt you and your family? Those are two very important and very easy questions that you can and should always should ask yourself when you see or hear republicans talking about slashing spending and ending regulations. Think about those regulations and about how they affect your life personally. Most often you will find that the regulations that republicans want to slash positively affect your life and improve your standard of living. Is that what you want?