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Business Title: Government''s War on Business One of the big questions about the on-going lousy economy is why aren't people starting more businesses on their own, rather than relying on government? The short answer is that governments at all levels in the U.S., have systematically created rules that make it increasingly difficult to start a business in America. We've all heard about the police shutting down children's lemonade stands in several states because the kids don't have a license to conduct business on their front lawn. The problem is much deeper than that. My wife owns a home daycare business. Over the last three years, she has been very successful, by providing great service to her customers. Washington State has a program that subsidizes the day care payments of low income kids. Given where we live, my wife had long ago decided not to take government subsidized daycare students. Good thing that she didn't. Washington State recently passed a law stating that if your home daycare accepts low income kids, who get a government subsidy, then you are actually an employee of the state, and therefore need to join the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). WOW!!! This may be the first case ever where a small business owner is compelled by the government to join a union. What happens to the poor kids when small day care owners don't want to join the union? They are left out in the cold. It's yet another awful unintended consequence of idiot government laws. This isn't the only case where idiot politicians have enacted rules that prevent small businesses from starting and serving their community. There are a ton of immigrants who would love to start a taxi company in New York. They get a driver's license. They buy a car. They take a test. They get their car inspected. These are all reasonable requirements, but no dice -- government requires them to bid on a Taxi Mendelian, which now costs $1 million. Many poor people who want to start their own business and rely on themselves can't do so because governments across the United States have restricted the market to prevent competition. Most of these ambitious people wind up becoming someone else's employee, usually at minimum wage... it's hardly the American dream. The really smart and ambitious ones wind up in the black market, selling drugs or engaging in other questionable activities. Wouldn't society be better served with them starting and running a legitimate business? America became a GREAT country because we enabled people to follow their own dreams, open a business, and become their own boss. Now, governments at all levels systematically destroy people's dreams by restricting entry into markets to create monopolies or oligopolies for themselves or for the special interests. It's sick and wrong. What are you going to do about it??? Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest #1. To: All, CZ82, hondo68, We The People, Capitalist Eric, TooConservative, sneakypete, A K A Stone, (#0) Look at how government is destroying the poor and uneducated. It's truly unbelievable... Iran’s main drive for acquiring atomic weapons is not for use against Israel but as a deterrent against U.S. intervention -- Major General Zeevi Farkash, head of the Israeli Military Intelligence Directorate #2. To: jwpegler (#0) Washington State recently passed a law stating that if your home daycare accepts low income kids, who get a government subsidy, then you are actually an employee of the state, and therefore need to join the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). I don't think they are the first to do that, it seems to me I heard that a few other states were gonna do that too.... "If you voted for Obama in 2008 to prove you're not a racist, you'll need to vote for someone else in 2012 to prove you're not an idiot." #3. To: jwpegler (#0) Washington State recently passed a law stating that if your home daycare accepts low income kids, who get a government subsidy, then you are actually an employee of the state, and therefore need to join the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). WTH? That's unbelievable. Sounds like another state to stay away from.
#4. To: We The People (#3) (Edited) WTH? Yep. My wife has to go to 10 meetings a year with regulators to keep her license. She's happy to do that. But now in every meeting they are passing out SEIU literature. This has turned her from a willing subject into a pissed off dissident. The government tyrants really need to think about what they are doing. Iran’s main drive for acquiring atomic weapons is not for use against Israel but as a deterrent against U.S. intervention -- Major General Zeevi Farkash, head of the Israeli Military Intelligence Directorate #5. To: jwpegler (#0) Taxi Mendelian I think those are medallions if you look it up. Otherwise, a great pro-small business blog.
#6. To: jwpegler (#4) But now in every meeting they are passing out SEIU literature. Now the NLRB is promulgating a new rule that allows them to call a snap union election, like within 10 days. This just happened in the last few days. When unions are allowed to do that, in various states they end up voting to unionize the industries affected about 90% of the time. If the unionizing vote is delayed for a month, they only vote to unionize about 25% of the time. Tell your wife to warn her friends in the business that they have to be ready or they will find themselves given the bum's rush and end up being forced to close (which is fine with the union) or to pay the union goons.
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