Business fined $4,000 over missing trashcan lid

A. Barton Hinkle
timesdispatch.com
November 5, 2012

According to conventional progressive wisdom, regulation is the means by which a compassionate government protects the weak and innocent from the strong and malevolent.

Try telling that to Brad Jones.

Jones is one of the owners of Buckingham Slate, a Virginia business a little over an hour’s drive west of Richmond. The company is distinguished by the quality of the highly valued Arvonia slate it produces. And by the fact that its roots trace back almost to the Civil War. And by the fact that federal regulators smacked it with a $4,000 fine.

Over a trash can.

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This article was posted: Monday, November 5, 2012 at 4:01 pm

Tags: big brother, domestic news, financial

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