OSHA is a good thing. The company I work for would never enforce safety standards or give us PPE if they weren't at risk for getting in trouble with OSHA. You'd see a lot more men getting permanently injured or killed.
Yes, some OSHA is a good thing, some of it is unnecessary and expensive and only protects complete morons, and I wouldn't be surprised if there were the usual problems of there being a revolving door between OSHA administrators and executives at companies that make the equipment OSHA mandates, but this is actually all besides the point: Even if OSHA saved a billion lives a year and every policy was wonderful, as long as the US has it and China doesn't, that's an uneven playing field. The choice, assuming zero tariffs, isn't actually between keeping Americans safe or not keeping them safe, it's between not keeping them safe and keeping some of them safer and some of them losing their jobs because they can't compete with countries that don't have those regulations. My actual position isn't that OSHA should be entirely eliminated (although it could certainly be greatly improved), it's that all the regulations I mentioned, including OSHA, should come with a tariff of some appropriate value on all countries that don't enforce an equivalent regulation, or in the long run you're not keeping people safe, you're just moving jobs to China. Having companies put the "OSHA tax" on price tags would help people understand the actual implications of the policies they support.
OSHA is a good thing. The company I work for would never enforce safety standards or give us PPE if they weren't at risk for getting in trouble with OSHA. You'd see a lot more men getting permanently injured or killed.
Some of it is a good thing, some of it is retarded busywork for union gangsters to create empty jobs.
Yes, some OSHA is a good thing, some of it is unnecessary and expensive and only protects complete morons, and I wouldn't be surprised if there were the usual problems of there being a revolving door between OSHA administrators and executives at companies that make the equipment OSHA mandates, but this is actually all besides the point: Even if OSHA saved a billion lives a year and every policy was wonderful, as long as the US has it and China doesn't, that's an uneven playing field. The choice, assuming zero tariffs, isn't actually between keeping Americans safe or not keeping them safe, it's between not keeping them safe and keeping some of them safer and some of them losing their jobs because they can't compete with countries that don't have those regulations. My actual position isn't that OSHA should be entirely eliminated (although it could certainly be greatly improved), it's that all the regulations I mentioned, including OSHA, should come with a tariff of some appropriate value on all countries that don't enforce an equivalent regulation, or in the long run you're not keeping people safe, you're just moving jobs to China. Having companies put the "OSHA tax" on price tags would help people understand the actual implications of the policies they support.