Usually, when business leaders fight regulation I understand why, even when I think it's short-sighted or stupid.
I understand, for example, why US beef producers still fight meaningful safety inspections, even though it costs them billions of dollars in lost exports to countries that would like some assurance that they aren't importing mad cow disease. It's because their knee-jerk opposition to even the mildest regulatory change outweighs any rational cost-benefit analysis.
But I can't for the life of me understand why corporations ...