February 6, 2015

GOP senator: Don’t make employees wash their hands after going to the bathroom, because freedom

GOP senator: Don’t make employees wash their hands after going to the bathroom, because freedom

"For much of the past 36 or so hours, we’ve heard from a number of Republicans that risking the occasional measles outbreak is simply the price of liberty. While Rand Paul and Chris Christie were busy championing the sacred right to expose others to disease, it fell to freshman Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) to take up the next great cause in the fight for freedom from regulatory overreach. We speak, of course, of the right of restaurants not to require their employees to wash their hands after using the restroom."