In Washington, DC a few years ago the govt. masterminds decided to require a Basic Business License for all business activity however small. One has to declare that they do not owe the city $100 or more in order to get one. If fighting a $100 plus traffic ticket, mistaken bill from Tax and Revenue, or any of the other myriad mistakes a govt. bureaucracy can make, you can’t get your licens.
One obstacle after another.
No wonder businesses are going overseas.
I think simply giving up and walking away is the best possible way to react to all of this. Stop trying to sustain a system that is broken anyway and not good for a lot of people.
Our country is like the Old South, determined to maintain a class system that prevents people from moving up (certain elites referring to ordinary Americans as trash) and a determination to bring in cheap labor in endless supply (the Mexicans), and a perverse determination not to be practical about an education (getting useless degrees) and deliberate ignorance about reality (as evidenced by the way people choose to ignore warning signs and learn from mistakes).
I broke with that some years ago and I believe that it was the best possible thing in the world. You won’t see me fighting to uphold a toxic system.