Comment by laborcontract

I too am predisposed against regulation. Knowing nothing about the issue, I actually expected to support the regulation.

Reading on, it basically seems to give Saw Stop defacto monopoly over the table saw industry, shifting the value capture entirely to them. And seeing that swings me against it. Unless they commit to releasing their full patent portfolio in favor of this effort, it seems like the legislation vastly favors an economically motivated actor, which rubs me the wrong way.

The irony here is that the same government wonders why manufacturing doesn't come back to the United States and this case is a microcosm of something the issue of a whole.