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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So...on the substance,  the fishermen had no recourse to fight a maritime agency’s interpretation of law, since Chevron required courts to give preference to the government,  and this lead the fishermen to have to bring government overfishing-regulators ON the boats with them AND pay them $700 a day?

Seems like overly budensome regulation to me.

I  work in a highly regulated financial services field where compliance is a constant and important daily consideration,  and even we are not forced to try to operate with regulators underfoot everyday, paying them for the disruption to boot.[/quote]

"Burdensome regulation" hasn't just materialized out of thin air.  It came about as a result of industry abuses.  And likely not just one problem actor, but a whole series of them over the course of decades which have typically caused millions in damages and/or serious injury/loss of human life et cetera.

You might not have physical regulators onsite, but you do still have monitoring and compliance requirements.

While it seems excessive to have someone aboard the ship, that could have been remedied by other means, such as requiring camera feeds or other means of gathering the data necessary to meet the regulatory compliance requirement.

But instead this seems to have just been a deliberate, well-funded, well-orchestrated cynical right wing move to take a blunt hatchet to government and regulation altogether.

So much for conservatives believing in "rule of law."  Instead, they attack regulations, they attack government, they attack taxation and revenue to keep our government running, they preach nonsense about "government small enough to drown in a bathtub."   That kind of thinking will rapidly reduce America to being a third-world country like Somalia.  [/quote]

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