05-24-2012, 09:19 PM
They "get away with it" because you ie. "the people" don't actually care about it as much as you're implying you do.
The cold hard truth is that if you want the State to prevent advertisers from straying "too far" from the truth then you need to a) fund, via taxes, the investigation by the State of every claim that anyone ever makes about anything and b) trust them to not just get the testing right but also to reveal the results honestly.
And most people are not only unwilling to pay higher taxes just to receive proof that people they don't trust anyway are lying; they also don't trust the state to tell them the truth either.
The cold hard truth is that if you want the State to prevent advertisers from straying "too far" from the truth then you need to a) fund, via taxes, the investigation by the State of every claim that anyone ever makes about anything and b) trust them to not just get the testing right but also to reveal the results honestly.
And most people are not only unwilling to pay higher taxes just to receive proof that people they don't trust anyway are lying; they also don't trust the state to tell them the truth either.
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."