[EL] [Bulk] RE: CPA/Zicklin

[David Ely]

I think you missed my point. I agree with you about refusing to do business
with those of differing political views, but when making a decision about
which products to buy I would like to be aware of the extent to which the
price I pay includes the true costs of the product, including those that are
easy to externalize (health, safety, environmental, limited resource.).
Since this knowledge is expensive or impossible to acquire, I value having a
reasonably reliable regulatory structure. Political spending (including
lobbying) which is geared toward undermining said regulatory structure
threatens to create exactly the miserable life you describe.

 

From: Smith, Brad [mailto:BSmith at law.capital.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 11:26 AM
To: David Ely; 'law-election at UCI.edu'
Subject: [Bulk] RE: [EL] CPA/Zicklin

 

 

Is regulation of campaign spending really just an attempt to gain advantage
(and eventually political favors and redistribution) against political
opposition? Or, as they say, one man's effort to "buy off the regulatory
structure" is another man's "sound public policy."

 

Really, a miserable way to live one's life, refusing to do business with
those of differing political views, and even worse, pressuring others to do
the same. But it is how some want to live, I suppose. 

 

Bradley A. Smith

Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault

   Professor of Law

Capital University Law School

303 E. Broad St.

Columbus, OH 43215

614.236.6317

http://law.capital.edu/faculty/bios/bsmith.aspx

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From: David Ely [ely at compass-demographics.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 2:06 PM
To: Smith, Brad; 'law-election at UCI.edu'
Subject: RE: [EL] CPA/Zicklin

To put a finer point on it,  is the political spending of for-profit
corporations really just an attempt to buy off the regulatory structure and
allow themselves to externalize costs to a maximum extent?

 

From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu
[mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of David
Ely
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 10:58 AM
To: 'Smith, Brad'; 'law-election at UCI.edu'
Subject: Re: [EL] CPA/Zicklin

 

Which is why markets do such a poor job of dealing with external effects of
economic activity. It's hard for a consumer to separate worrying about
political views and activities from worrying about economic decisions that
externalize public costs from the price of a product. 

 

From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu
[mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Smith,
Brad
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 9:03 AM
To: law-election at UCI.edu
Subject: [EL] CPA/Zicklin

 

CPI writes: 

 

"Watch your Netflix show, wear your Ralph Lauren shirt, brew your Keurig
coffee and deposit your paycheck at M&T Bank.

Just know that you're patronizing some of the nation's least politically
transparent companies,"

What a horrible, impoverished way to live one's life, worrying about the
political views and activities of everyone you come into contact with, and
using that to decide whether to do business with them.

 

Bradley A. Smith

Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault

   Professor of Law

Capital University Law School

303 E. Broad St.

Columbus, OH 43215

614.236.6317

http://law.capital.edu/faculty/bios/bsmith.aspx

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