Yet these are precisely the hazards that government is loath to tolerate in private industry, even when industry has made great strides in reducing these risks. But although industry has direct incentives to remedy the harms of its byproducts, no such incentives face government bureaucracies. The mismatch between government's power and its poor accountability results in the most egregious violations of safety. Toxic Pollutants, Environmental Regulation and the Law , edited by Richard Stroup and Roger Meiners. Lincoln's true legacy, according to DiLorenzo, consisted of the demolition of civil liberties, the centralization of government power through protectionist tariffs, the opening the floodgates of corporate welfare, and war crimes.
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