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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