When I grew up in Tampa in the sixties there were lots of little companies. There were a couple of plating shops where you get your chrome redone. When the gas stations on every corner went under because the government starting mandating what prices they could charge and when they were allowed to change them those corners became small companies making and selling all sorts of things. Then, along came the EPA. Most companies went out of business. Turns out if you owned an old gas station you had to pay a government certified company to come in and remediate the soil. That cost thousands more money than anyone could make off the company they owned. They all let the banks have the property and walked away. A Honeywell plant that made missiles just closed it down. Years later all the supposed bad soil tested clean but the EPA still wanted millions of dollars because, well they had a report that twenty years prior it was dirty, so somebody had to pay. Honeywell walked away.
Look at why companies aren’t here and you’ll find the government behind their absence.
A lot of companies could have been cleaner, but the EPA wanted them to use only EPA certified companies, and nobody could afford that. It was a giant money-making scheme.
Maybe RFK is on to something...