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talkpoliticsSince it's been about a week since the last major earth-shattering event, I'm declaring the topic over and moving on to some real stuff that actually matters.
American government at every level appears to be working hard at preventing people from starting a business, while giving lip service to the claim that they are working to help. You can give out all the money you want to "create jobs", but if you don't touch the legal restrictions and excessive fees that are the cause of people not starting businesses in the first place, it won't do a lot of good. And often, the money given out is just payouts to campaign contributors or friends. A lot of the regulations are claimed to be for "health and safety" or some other buzzword, but it's really just a way to shut out competition for existing businesses. This is the main problem that needs to be fixed if we want our economy to improve and if we really cared about helping the unemployed.
The Institute for Justice has started creating reports on cities that study what regulations are a problem and give suggestions on what can be done to improve the business climate there. Here are the first few (links are to intro pages, the full reports are PDFs):
Milwaukee
Washington D.C.
Philadelphia
Newark
American government at every level appears to be working hard at preventing people from starting a business, while giving lip service to the claim that they are working to help. You can give out all the money you want to "create jobs", but if you don't touch the legal restrictions and excessive fees that are the cause of people not starting businesses in the first place, it won't do a lot of good. And often, the money given out is just payouts to campaign contributors or friends. A lot of the regulations are claimed to be for "health and safety" or some other buzzword, but it's really just a way to shut out competition for existing businesses. This is the main problem that needs to be fixed if we want our economy to improve and if we really cared about helping the unemployed.
The Institute for Justice has started creating reports on cities that study what regulations are a problem and give suggestions on what can be done to improve the business climate there. Here are the first few (links are to intro pages, the full reports are PDFs):
Milwaukee
Washington D.C.
Philadelphia
Newark
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Date: 15/1/11 18:36 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 15/1/11 21:44 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 15/1/11 22:08 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 15/1/11 23:00 (UTC)(hmm, I am trying to figure out what you mean, since slavery as a business ended shortly after the (not so) Civil War (at least as far as I know) that person would have been really, really old)
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Date: 15/1/11 23:12 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 15/1/11 23:31 (UTC)I guess we were both just being somewhat benignly snarky :)