Posted on 01/03/2014 10:10:21 AM PST by 1rudeboy
I am all for you! We need a Conservative Network to the right of Fox.
Dear Person, in Kalifornia, those are the same things.
un-f_cking real.....
I guarantee there is a piece of legislation somewhere in Sacramento that will make it a crime to close a business. I miss the scenery in California. Born and raised in Tahoe but I avoid that state as much as possible.
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I try not to even violate its airspace.
I was born in Los Angeles after WWII, and my parents were born there, too, in the 1920s.
We went camping a lot during the 1950s and 1960s. Californians then were not as this author describe.
We left in 1970 and haven’t been back.
I have watched several businesses decide to close up shop because it was not worth the hassle.
These were not big time employer, they had anywhere from two to ten employees but if you are one of those employees it hurts.
I am on death watch for another business that has been around for thirty years. One or two more years at most and she will close the doors for the last time. She loves her store. But every year there are more papers to fill out, new regulations to comply with and regulators who can't make up their minds what their regulations mean.
I worked for a city in Ventura County for several years and it was insane. The government worshipped oak trees and people were threatened with prison and enormous fines if one was removed, even from a citizen’s personal land, and even if it had a disease. Big Things occurred in town, but more attention was paid to the trees.
We escaped to the Bible Belt and logical, sane people; life is good.
If they could successfully navigate this, they would not get attacked by the giant gang with pipes and chains and bats...
The end result: Corruptocracy.
The ferals will use the land to grow weed.
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This is what happens when you pay people who think it is their job to sit around and think of more ways to take your hard-earned money.
Pretty soon you will need a permit to seek permits...
Good writeup with details.
One of my favorite writers Megan McArdle comments on my post about the regulatory excess in California. The same post was linked by Reason as well. The Reason post got the attention of Ron Paul, who will be interviewing me for his radio show next week.
I posted a few updates on the article today:
Wow, reading this again, I left out so much! An employee once sued us at this location for harassment and intimidation by her manager -- when the manager was her sister! It cost me over $20,000 in legal expenses to get the case dismissed. I had an older couple file a state complaint for age discrimination when they were terminated -- despite the fact that our entire business model is to hire retired people and the vast majority of our employees are 70 and older. And how could I have forgotten the process of getting a liquor license? I suppose I left it out because while tedious (my wife and I had to fly to California to get fingerprinted, for example), it is not really worse than in other places -- liquor license processes are universally bad, a feature and not a bug for the established businesses one is trying to compete with. We gave the license up pretty quickly, when we saw how crazy and irresponsible much of the customer base was. Trying to make the place safer and more family friendly, we banned alcohol from the lake area, and faced a series of lawsuit threats over that.
Addendum posted in #38, of interest. (Don’t worry, I’m not starting a ping list).
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