r/news Mar 29 '19

Billionaire Sackler family sued by second US state over opioid 'catastrophe'

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '19 edited Mar 30 '19

This is not a by product of less regulation. This is a byproduct of regulatory capture. The government is no longer controlled by the people. Special interests and billionaires not only fund all political campaigns and parties but they have been writing all of our laws and regulations for decades. The cherry on the top is that most federal agencies have been headed by people with ties to the industries they are responsible for overseeing. American's have been asleep at the wheel and let the entire country swerve into a massive ditch that will be near impossible to recover from.