Why punish a hapless French cheese-maker or Italian vineyard for the sins of their governments?
And often this argument is framed in moral terms: Why should we punish people who are just trying to earn a living?
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So the LRAA is a super-duper minimum wage proposed mainly to punish a single company, which is why wags in the press are calling it the Walmart Living Wage Bill.
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Yes, I know there are settings to allow for things like auto-save, but why are the default settings for applications often designed to punish users who don't follow the programmers' rules or understand the interface?
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Why have the securities regulators, namely the Securities and Exchange Commission, failed to punish the Wall Street banks that fueled the mortgage crisis by underwriting toxic mortgages and selling them to the public?
And that is why, through this fee and broader reforms that we seek, our goal is not to punish Wall Street firms, but rather to prevent the abuse and excess that nearly caused the collapse of many of these firms and the financial system itself.
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And that's why I've called for tough, new, common-sense rules of the road that punish abuse and reward drive and innovation in the financial sector.
Even more simply, that's why the state trooper sits in wait along the highway to deter us from exceeding the speed limit and to punish us (with fines, points, etc.) when we're caught doing so.
That's why our new campaign calls on all of the relevant regulators to set up a joint taskforce to properly police and punish those responsible for nuisance calls and texts.
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