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Today’s target
ABOLISHOSHA
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Nobody needed a federal rulebook to learn that injured workers are expensive.
Official story
What they claim to do
Ensures safe and healthy working conditions by setting and enforcing standards.
Ground truth
What they actually do
Enforces thousands of pages of workplace standards with a few thousand inspectors for millions of workplaces. Economists disagree on how much its inspections actually reduce injuries, and the compliance paperwork weighs heaviest on small employers.
The libertarian case
Employers pay for injuries through insurance premiums, lawsuits, lost workers and lost reputation, and workers with options leave dangerous jobs. Liability, insurance and union contracts price safety better than a one-size-fits-all rulebook, which is cheapest for big firms with compliance staff.
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