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From what I can see they actually cost around 600k. That's a license to operate a Taxi company. Taxi driver is 15.00 to take the test. Lot's of money to be made in that business if you own the business. I wish the Gov would tell me the best way to wipe my butt though. Do you do that before or after you wash your hands?
Sorry. I for one am happy the gov regulates a lot of food items. I know how unscrupulous people can be. I don't buy the old market controlling it's own theory. Too many people have proven that it's a stupid theory. Look at Bernie Madhoff. Guess he wasn't too worried about his reputation or going out of business because he was a crook. Big business pays government to deregulate so they can do whatever they want. Look at all the people around you that are unemployed. That's what deregulation does.
Are you kidding me? You don't think big business is in bed with the Government? lmao Take a read... http://www.cato.org/research/articles/cpr28n4-1.html
Thats the CATO insitute for reference. Bernie Madhoff was a bad guy..yea there are some greedy people out there but did the Governments regulation really help in stopping him? No, absolutely not! Nor will more regulation prevent anything like that from happening again. So, blaming free market capitalism for that is ignorant. Deregulation frees up things so the regular guy can be an entrepeneur without a ton of red tape to go through and pay for. I know all this firsthand because I started up my small business 10 years ago. Trust me, we don't need more tax regs or any other regs....all they do is strangle small business owners like me.
The CATO institute is a right wing think tank. Created to propagate propaganda. Need something better than that for a reference. Deregulation doesn't free up anything for the vast majority of the population. It just puts more money in the pockets of the wealthy and allows unscrupulous people to take advantage of those less fortunate. They need to free up money for small business owners. Not regulations. As with everything in life a middle of the road approach is best. Regulation can be good and it can also be bad. I'm all for food regulation. I'm all for packaging regulations, electrical and building standards. All sorts of stuff that involves safety that would be short cutted by most business owners to make a buck. So I count on Uncle Sam to do what he can. I know from experience that people will do anything to save a buck.
BTW Madhoff was used as an example of someone not caring about the market since the "Market will regulate itself " BS is so often used to defend deregulation. I wasn't using him as an example of regulation. Read it more carefully next time. Without laws and regulations though people like him would be much more common.
If someone doesn't like regulations they should maybe try out someplace like Haiti. They didn't have any building codes down there. No regulations at all. A capitalist dream. Of course when the earthquake hit there weren't too many people left that didn't get squished by buildings that weren't built to withstand anything.
I do agree with the thought that most of Congress and 5 out of 9 Supreme Court justices currently sitting on the bench are in the pockets of Fortune 500 companies.
From what I can see they actually cost around 600k. That's a license to operate a Taxi company. Taxi driver is 15.00 to take the test. Lot's of money to be made in that business if you own the business. I wish the Gov would tell me the best way to wipe my butt though. Do you do that before or after you wash your hands?
Sorry. I for one am happy the gov regulates a lot of food items. I know how unscrupulous people can be. I don't buy the old market controlling it's own theory. Too many people have proven that it's a stupid theory. Look at Bernie Madhoff. Guess he wasn't too worried about his reputation or going out of business because he was a crook. Big business pays government to deregulate so they can do whatever they want. Look at all the people around you that are unemployed. That's what deregulation does.
Are you kidding me? You don't think big business is in bed with the Government? lmao Take a read... http://www.cato.org/research/articles/cpr28n4-1.html
Thats the CATO insitute for reference. Bernie Madhoff was a bad guy..yea there are some greedy people out there but did the Governments regulation really help in stopping him? No, absolutely not! Nor will more regulation prevent anything like that from happening again. So, blaming free market capitalism for that is ignorant. Deregulation frees up things so the regular guy can be an entrepeneur without a ton of red tape to go through and pay for. I know all this firsthand because I started up my small business 10 years ago. Trust me, we don't need more tax regs or any other regs....all they do is strangle small business owners like me.
The CATO institute is a right wing think tank. Created to propagate propaganda. Need something better than that for a reference. Deregulation doesn't free up anything for the vast majority of the population. It just puts more money in the pockets of the wealthy and allows unscrupulous people to take advantage of those less fortunate. They need to free up money for small business owners. Not regulations. As with everything in life a middle of the road approach is best. Regulation can be good and it can also be bad. I'm all for food regulation. I'm all for packaging regulations, electrical and building standards. All sorts of stuff that involves safety that would be short cutted by most business owners to make a buck. So I count on Uncle Sam to do what he can. I know from experience that people will do anything to save a buck.
BTW Madhoff was used as an example of someone not caring about the market since the "Market will regulate itself " BS is so often used to defend deregulation. I wasn't using him as an example of regulation. Read it more carefully next time. Without laws and regulations though people like him would be much more common.
If someone doesn't like regulations they should maybe try out someplace like Haiti. They didn't have any building codes down there. No regulations at all. A capitalist dream. Of course when the earthquake hit there weren't too many people left that didn't get squished by buildings that weren't built to withstand anything.
I do agree with the thought that most of Congress and 5 out of 9 Supreme Court justices currently sitting on the bench are in the pockets of Fortune 500 companies.
