I'm torn by this news, don't really know what to think about it.
On the one hand, it's a ridiculous notion that a company can be sued for not having a carbon footprint plan that meets the standards of a Leftist government.
On the other hand, it's not like it's an American company, so what do I care what happens to it? It's a Brazilian company, so maybe rather than taking unfair trade advantages of America, It would like to try operating under Brazilian law? For instance, in Brazil, a land owner is only allowed to do as he sees fit with 20% of his own damned land... but the government expects him to pay taxes on 100% of his own land - the 20% he can use as well as the 80% that the government gets to control.
In Brazil, the government will give exorbitant fines to a campesino for cutting down a tree on the wrong part of his own land. By "exorbitant", I mean fines of between 150,000 and a quarter million dollars to a campesino that is lucky to make 2000.00 dollars a year. It would take such a campesino between 75 and 125 YEARS to pay off such a fine, even if he put every dime he made in those years on the fine and starved his own wife and kids to do it..All because he cut down a tree on the wrong part of his own damned land. It's ridiculous.
On top of that, I find it hilarious that any government anywhere would find Letitia James to be qualified to argue law before the bar. That fact by itself tells me everything I need t know about the New York Bar.
Personally, I think that if JBS is bothered by this case, then it should simply stop doing business in New York. Let Letitia James figure out how to feed New York without their input. If it's no longer doing business in New York, then NY no longer has any standing to complain about how JBS does business.
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On the one hand, it's a ridiculous notion that a company can be sued for not having a carbon footprint plan that meets the standards of a Leftist government.
On the other hand, it's not like it's an American company, so what do I care what happens to it? It's a Brazilian company, so maybe rather than taking unfair trade advantages of America, It would like to try operating under Brazilian law? For instance, in Brazil, a land owner is only allowed to do as he sees fit with 20% of his own damned land... but the government expects him to pay taxes on 100% of his own land - the 20% he can use as well as the 80% that the government gets to control.
In Brazil, the government will give exorbitant fines to a campesino for cutting down a tree on the wrong part of his own land. By "exorbitant", I mean fines of between 150,000 and a quarter million dollars to a campesino that is lucky to make 2000.00 dollars a year. It would take such a campesino between 75 and 125 YEARS to pay off such a fine, even if he put every dime he made in those years on the fine and starved his own wife and kids to do it..All because he cut down a tree on the wrong part of his own damned land. It's ridiculous.
On top of that, I find it hilarious that any government anywhere would find Letitia James to be qualified to argue law before the bar. That fact by itself tells me everything I need t know about the New York Bar.
Personally, I think that if JBS is bothered by this case, then it should simply stop doing business in New York. Let Letitia James figure out how to feed New York without their input. If it's no longer doing business in New York, then NY no longer has any standing to complain about how JBS does business.
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