The private sector does it better

For the last 115 years, a private company has been testing many of the items we use at home and work. Shouldn't that be enough? Well, politics is the dirtiest game in town, and it was politics that gave us the inefficient behemoth called OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Somehow, America survived 363 years without the wasteful agency signed into law by the criminal Richard Nixon, the only president ever to resign.

Read this nice article by Mark Thornton on Underwriter Labs, and thanks to the Mises Institute for posting it on their website.

Abolish OSHA

Let's get government out of the safety business. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, formed in the early '70's and signed into law by president Richard Nixon, costs businesses and ultimately consumers millions upon millions every year. All this cranky agency does is put out more and more regulations for us to comply with. They're responsible for that binder in your store you love so well, full of Material Safety Data Sheets. You know, the binder no one ever looks at.

Somehow, America survived for over 350 years without OSHA. As George Reisman, an economist and professor at Pepperdine University points out here, safety is not a proper function of government.