Stop Toxic Imports Blog

“An overzealous government that tries to keep all bad products off the market is likely to err by keeping too many good products off the market.” So warns James A. Dorn of the free-market think-tank the Cato Institute in an editorial entitled Toxic Toys: Congress Risks Making Things Worse, critical of the Sen. Richard Durbin’s (D-IL) proposed Consumer Product Safety Modernization Act of 2007 (S. 1847) bill slowly making its rounds in Congress, which would dramatically and incrementally increase funding for the much maligned CPSC and implement stronger repercussions for multinational companies whose products fail to meet safety standards...