Quote:I think the best way to deal with these massive corporations is to enforce monopoly laws we've had all along.
/Looks around for a politician that has even mentioned monopolies.
Only one I can think of would be Warren's speech about Dodd-Frank and tearing apart the financial conglomerates.
Quote:Very true, I am all in favor of reducing and eliminating regulations that stifle small businesses while at the same time putting more in place that reign in the super powerful corporations. I think the two go hand in hand and it's not as easy to say deregulate in a broad in general way.
I always have to ask, is there a particular regulation you are talking about that you would like to repeal?
A lot of politicians will tell you they want to reduce regulations, but they don't tell you which ones, because if they did that, people would say, "Oh, no, don't repeal that one. Repeal something else."
Quote:I always have to ask, is there a particular regulation you are talking about that you would like to repeal?
A lot of politicians will tell you they want to reduce regulations, but they don't tell you which ones, because if they did that, people would say, "Oh, no, don't repeal that one. Repeal something else."
The answer to that question is so broad it's difficult to answer. regulations can change by state, city or county, they also change based upon the type of industry. The current federal regulation registry is 80,000 pages that's an insane amount of red tape to try and guide through. I'll give you specifics in my area in my field but that doesn't really answer the bigger question of what regulations are harming business that you are asking.
For example I have a friend that started a taxi company, he has to pay "tokens" for each cab he owns and operates in each county. So for him to pick up a customer in Volusia county or at the Orlando airport and transport them back to Flagler county he has to buy tokens from 4-5 different counties. It makes it very hard for the small business man with 4-5 cabs trying to compete with big yellow cabs.
In automotive for me dispose of tires properly (after purchasing all my business licenses) I have to purchase a specific certificate that lets be legally sell them to a third party (who had to purchase a specific license) to load them on a semi-trailer and send them to a grinding plant. I can't just send them to the grinding plant myself, that would require me purchasing a disposers certificate.
There's literally an endless list of regulations that make it extremely difficult for new business to compete with established big business. And that is our major problem, the lack of jobs and related lower wages because employers know people are desperate for work is all related to the lack of new business being created.
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The answer to that question is so broad it's difficult to answer. regulations can change by state, city or county, they also change based upon the type of industry. The current federal regulation registry is 80,000 pages that's an insane amount of red tape to try and guide through. I'll give you specifics in my area in my field but that doesn't really answer the bigger question of what regulations are harming business that you are asking.
For example I have a friend that started a taxi company, he has to pay "tokens" for each cab he owns and operates in each county. So for him to pick up a customer in Volusia county or at the Orlando airport and transport them back to Flagler county he has to buy tokens from 4-5 different counties. It makes it very hard for the small business man with 4-5 cabs trying to compete with big yellow cabs.
In automotive for me dispose of tires properly (after purchasing all my business licenses) I have to purchase a specific certificate that lets be legally sell them to a third party (who had to purchase a specific license) to load them on a semi-trailer and send them to a grinding plant. I can't just send them to the grinding plant myself, that would require me purchasing a disposers certificate.
There's literally an endless list of regulations that make it extremely difficult for new business to compete with established big business. And that is our major problem, the lack of jobs and related lower wages because employers know people are desperate for work is all related to the lack of new business being created.
Also a response to ytraM
Using the tokens example as a basis for right/wrong regulation discussion. Having the tokens is restrictive to start up competition in the taxi market. However, if you remove them, I think companies like Uber/Lyft would immediately dominate the market and make in completely uneconomical for say a single person to start his own cab service. Uber doesn't really care either way since they can afford to pay for these tokens for their drivers (this is what large cab companies already do) while still driving down taxi prices in comparisons to the current cab companies in nearly all markets. Simply saying some are a problem for certain cases doesn't make them right or wrong or restrictive across the board.
I think one's you can repeal are ones that put restrictive fees/entry costs on small businesses to allow them to get into the market. As they grow they then start paying the fees/taxes whatever you want to call them. Large companies don't need these breaks and should be held to higher standards, IMO due to their profitability. I think the problem arises when you start lifting or reducing regulations on things like polluting/environmental impact. Or putting laws in place that allow businesses to not treat employees well.. Working hours/wages come to mind. I agree it is a very tricky field to navigate and I don't know that anyone has the whole answer.
Last night I was reading American Sniper by Chris Kyle (RIP) and h was talkin about a time where they ran into protesters as they were leaving for a deployment an he couldn't quite figure out why they were protesting the SEALs instead of their own politicians. The politicians are the ones who make the decisions, not the troops. They just go where they're told.
Th same thing here. Don't protest people who have nothing to do with your cause, it's a waste of time. There's nothing wrong with public awareness but in this case that's not what's happening. This sort of thing is just aggravating and not helpful.
I'm gonna go lay down in the Welfare office.
I always wondered why it was acceptable for people to vote for Obama solely on race or why the recent Black Friday movement (in which people were urged to support only black owned businesses during the holiday shopping) wasn't seen as being racist. However if someone voted for Romney solely because he was white that would be looked at as completely racist. Or if a person were to only shop at white owned businesses. Seems like a bit of a double standard.
Quote:I always wondered why it was acceptable for people to vote for Obama solely on race or why the recent Black Friday movement (in which people were urged to support only black owned businesses during the holiday shopping) wasn't seen as being racist. However if someone voted for Romney solely because he was white that would be looked at as completely racist. Or if a person were to only shop at white owned businesses. Seems like a bit of a double standard.
It's ridiculous that they had to bus AA's to the voting station, just to try to get them to vote. The fact that MOST of them voted for him because he is black is everything MLK Jr. was against. They also thought once he was elected that they wouldn't have to worry about working or paying bills again, which is completely opposite because they are worse off then when he took office.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/37...oy-murdock
http://youtu.be/Bg98BvqUvCc
Quote:It's ridiculous that they had to bus AA's to the voting station, just to try to get them to vote. The fact that MOST of them voted for him because he is black is everything MLK Jr. was against. They also thought once he was elected that they wouldn't have to worry about working or paying bills again, which is completely opposite because they are worse off then when he took office. <a class="bbc_url" href='http://www.nationalreview.com/article/378087/black-americans-are-worse-under-obama-deroy-murdock'>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/378087/black-americans-are-worse-under-obama-deroy-murdock</a>
Haha, that video is hilarious! Was it edited or is that lady simply put, cro magnum?
I saw an interview a few years ago the Obama phone lady was talking about how fooled she was. She talked about how she had bought the Obama propaganda hook line and sinker and yet a few years later was realizing how full of crap his campaign and the media was.
Quote:I guess some people have certain stereotypes about black people.
Here is another feel good article.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/after-arrest...cers-life/
You know what was amazing yesterday? Todd Bowles was signed to coach the Jets. The articles I read nobody mentioned he was African American, or that he was the whatever # of African Americans that have coached in the NFL.
It wasnt a feel good story, he was just a football coach like everyone. The way it should be.
Quote:You know what was amazing yesterday? Todd Bowles was signed to coach the Jets. The articles I read nobody mentioned he was African American, or that he was the whatever # of African Americans that have coached in the NFL.
It wasnt a feel good story, he was just a football coach like everyone. The way it should be.
Interesting take but I'll take the wait and see approach to your statement until the fried chicken harbinger chimes in with his intellectual discourse.