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Millions of dollars of ad revenue would be lost if Congress chose to regulate beer ads or, worse yet, proposed new voluntary standards.
Because the EPA has no authority to change the current Clean Air Act standards before model year 2004, implementation of the voluntary program will result in substantially reduced exhaust pollutants nationwide earlier than could otherwise be achieved because of the more stringent standards of this rule.
Alarmed by the simultaneous expansion of democracy and an ever-more-centralized bureaucratic administrative state in post-revolutionary France, he used his explorations of early Republican America to make the case to his own countrymen that they should encourage voluntary associations in civic society as a new buffer against state centralization.
Currently, commercial Web publishers think they've staved off Federal Trade Commission regulators by establishing voluntary privacy standards for online users.
In "Trumpet Voluntary," Michael Kinsley misses something essential when he argues that potential volunteers, and in particular well-off ones, might do better to donate their money than to actually volunteer.