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What do you mean, no grandfathered liability? When a company is absorbed by a larger parent company, in the act of transferring the assets also comes a transfer of liability. This is grandfathering liability.

Additionally, if a man comes and strip-mines a particular plot of land because of lax EPA standards and his tailings pile leeches organic-bonded mercury into the ground water, that man isn't completely absolved in the repair of the environment that he caused through his profit driven motives. Your concept of land and property ownership is honestly quite undeveloped and I think it's the deepest ideological divide between your typical liberal and republican. The concept of ownership is, admittedly, deeply convoluted.

A republican like yourself sees property to be used within the bounds of the law, and only avoids the prohibitive boundaries while getting away with all it can - i.e. maximizing profitable efficiency with the knowledge that a resource is finite. A liberal concept of property is more structured around the tradgedy of the commons and understands that a property law does not automatically and intrinsically define what ought to be done with that particular piece of land simply because it's within the law to do so.

So yes, grandfathered liability is an absolute blessing because it doesn't pretend like a law or understanding of the importance of properly shielding your industrial wastes from the environment is a static thing. Your concept of property leads to strip mining and clear cutting because it's permitted by law. Liberal concepts of property are more based around the tragedy of the commons.

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