They don't care if the pie gets smaller, they just want the whole pie.
He should leave California.
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A friend of mine tried to open a small ice cream shop. The building inspector kept citing him for picayune plumbing code violations in his restrooms. Did not stop until he broke down and paid the bastard off.
Like I said many times, until we massively reform business regulations and especially do a massive overhaul of our tax laws to reduce its burden on businesses, we’re not going to have a real economic recovery.
Sounds like something straight out of Atlas Shrugged.
There’s a small adult-care home on my (residential) street, and last summer they enlarged a ground-level wooden patio in the front yard, as a place where residents could sit outdoors in nice weather. The patio appeared to be well back from the property line, it was not an eyesore, but some local building inspector made them tear the whole thing down after it was finished. They did not replace it. I have often wondered what that was all about.
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An item not included but very real is the fact that every business has at minimum 2 undisclosed creditors, the Federal and state Governments plus whatever municipality and local tax districts that there may be. Each one is #1 in line to be paid regardless of any profits and that does not include the unpaid time and effort devoted to satisfying regulatory requirements.
A particular favorite of mine is the fact that every employer is required not to discriminate for race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation BUT the US Census will ask the business owner those very same questions about who is employed (answers required to be accurate and promptly replied by law!) The response of “I don’t ask” is not acceptable!
For any and every business owner the concept of “overhead costs” is a constant and real concern and is especially acute for the weakly capitalized small business. For government bureaucrats, the cost of regulation is of absolutely no concern and a limit of 24 hours per day is no excuse for failing to be prompt in your paperwork.
So I am job hunting - after 31 years!
It's tough to stay in business because of all the government that invites themselves into your office. And they're so nice about it, too...
It's doubly tough to hire the first employee. Besides the cost of pay, and payroll...there's the number of forms and reports to fill out and policies to develop and adopt. If you're lucky, I'd say, the first employee is at best a break-even proposition. Count into that all the personal productivity forfeited due to time spent administratively...and it's easily a net expense.
That's why employment isn't growing. That, and that abomination known as Obamacare. And the uncertainty...are you willing to invest in the business when the regulatory environment is uncertain at best?
Big business spreads administration over a larger number of widgets. It's still a burden but nowhere as large a part.
You can feel, today, an active and abiding hatred emanating from the organs of the State toward small business owners and entrepreneurs. Actual, violent, "Burn it all down, man!" hatred. To an Administration run by Jeremiah Wright's disciples, driving such white and Asian scammers out of business is seen as Social Justice.
This problem won't be fixed by simply changing Presidents, as these Sixties radicals and their mindsets have infiltrated every corner of state and local government, and have influenced every law and regulation created since the early 80's, when they began their desperate War on Reagan.
You can virtually put this article into one word: ‘Socialism’.
They say it is for a common good.
Who needs small businesses in a new brave world of equal misery?
Nothing beats government handouts, unless there is something left to hand out.