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If corporate tax was zero, we'd shut down the rest of the western world...especially after we lean up EPA... Let the states police their environment like they're supposed to.

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I am no fan of the EPA but I disagree with leaving that to the states.
There has to be some federal oversight in this area because our rivers run from state to state. If a state doesn't do it's job of stopping the pollution of a river it affects everyone downstream.

"Business" cannot be grouped together.

We all suffer more from the actions businesses that advocate for regulation and accommodate regulation than we are we suffer from contract rigging. The damage we incur from the businesses that shape regulation gets very little attention because there are very few media members that understand it let alone that can explain it.

The company, for example, that gets to help the EPA to write regs that influence it's industry has an opportunity to create barriers of entry hindering competition.

With almost every piece of major regulatory legislation there are businesses that profit immensely. Think about the prescription drug bill under Bush--the drug companies made fortunes. They have made wild fortunes under ACA and there no bigger supporters of JBE's expansion of medicaid than large health care providers in Louisiana. The tobacco companies made FORTUNES after the laws outlawing tobacco advertising were passed---they got to keep the hundred of millions they were spending advertising. The FDA screws us every day by restricting competition. On and On.