Thursday, December 2, 2010

WSJ: Food safety bill a corporate welfare program?












posted at 11:36 am on December 2, 2010 by Ed Morrissey

And when the Wall Street Journal complains of corporate welfare via regulatory expansion, it’s worth noting.  In an editorial today scolding the GOP for playing ball on S510, the food-safety bill that Harry Reid pushed as part of his desperate lame-duck agenda, the WSJ’s editors notes that the expansion of FDA powers and especially its mandatory recall authority will disproportionately impact smaller growers, especially in the House version, which is why the larger corporations didn’t put up much of a fight (via The Week):  Read More