Good post from Nina Mason at her new Blog
TortDeform readers might remember the name Nina Mason as the creator of the innovative Georgia Civil Justice Foundation campaign to educate the public.
It distresses me greatly that newspapers as well-respected as The Wall Street Journal would publish hogwash like “The Tort Tax” without bothering to check the facts. These articles are nothing more than misleading propaganda designed to sell books, capitalize on the politics of fear, and help push the democracy-dismantling agenda known as “tort reform.”
The article begins with this bald-faced lie: Economists have long understood that America’s tort system is a serious drag on the nation’s economy. Economists understand no such thing. The truth is that America’s civil justice system, unlike those in other countries, is designed so that the lion’s share of the financial burden rests where it should: on the wrongdoer, not the taxpayer. Consequently, the public tax burden for our liability system is a mere fraction of what citizens pay for civil legal services in England, France, Germany, and Canada, among others. Notice how “tort reform” advocates never mention that “fact”? But they constantly mention the bogus Tillinghaust-Towers study. Highly regarded, as McQuillan and Abramyan claim? Certainly not. Widely-cited by tort-reform pundits bent on misleading the public? You betcha.
Source: Lex Communicator » Blog Archive » There's no such thing as a "tort tax"
I wish her the best of luck with her business, and will definitely keep an eye on her blog. You should too!
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