>>How would you react to this bill if it affected YOUR business, your pocketbook, your LIFE? I know you wont answer this because if you were as smart as you think you are you would have figured out what I was asking a few posts ago and politely answered. My date just got here, have a nice night!



Jeff -- Nearly every law, and especially every law related to commerce, hurts somebody. The ban on asbestos hurt insulation producers; limits on tobacco advertisements hurt cigarette salesmen and tobacco growers; the ban on lead in paint hurt paint manufacturers; and so on. The question is not whether some breeders would be hurt by the ban -- of course they would.



The real question is whether the benefits of the proposed legislation (benefits to the environment) would outweigh the costs (costs to breeders, owners, enforcement agencies). I don't know the answer to that question -- and neither do you. The way to start answering it is to start gathering actual data on how much **interstate** business there is in the "big 9" every year, and how much money is made in imports every year. I suppose you'd also have to figure in how much domestic breeders would *benefit* if they no longer had competition from import sales....that's another thought.....



In any case -- it's irrelevant how I would personally feel if my personal business were being damaged. I don't personally like having to get my vehicle emissions tested every year -- but I support the law that requires it. What IS relevant is the over all cost/benefit analysis. And if you really want people to take you seriously, you (opponents of the bill) will need to get serious about gathering data for that analysis instead of just running around yelling about how the sky is falling.
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0.1 Peruvian rainbow boa (Amaru)

0.3 Honduran milksnakes (Chicchan, Chanir, Hari)

2.6 corns (Cetto, Tolosa, TBA)

1,000,000.1,000,000 other critters

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