“The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is now only counting costs to businesses when considering regulation on key pollutants, internal documents show, rather than considering human lives saved by such caps.”

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    Those costs can be passed onto governments. Much like salary subsidies in the form of food stamps.

    The corporate world is doing a PE style takeover of government, and non-workers are simply an externality.