Everything Is Not OK
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Beware complaints of math and overhead that don't quanitify the math or overhead. He stops the narrative right when they have to spend money. How much? Permits? For what? Is it the equivalent of two days' revenue? A week? First month's net? That's my experience with these libertarian pieces -- great at first blush but totally useless for anybody with business acumen.
It kind of reminds me of the Mississippi OBGYN years ago during tort reform debates that was spending like over $100k a year on malpractice insurance. It is insane, something has to give, it's too much, and the MS media picked up and pounded his narrative. So come to find out, he also had a net income of seven figures after it was paid. See, nobody was supposed to question the entire equation -- just the cost of compliance.
It kind of reminds me of the Mississippi OBGYN years ago during tort reform debates that was spending like over $100k a year on malpractice insurance. It is insane, something has to give, it's too much, and the MS media picked up and pounded his narrative. So come to find out, he also had a net income of seven figures after it was paid. See, nobody was supposed to question the entire equation -- just the cost of compliance.
Not sure I see the equivalent. On the one hand we have a young couple whose ambitions are being dashed by government overreach, and on the other hand we have a doctor who is already in business. It is outrageous the doctor has such high insurance costs regardless of his income. But that has next to nothing to do with government regulations preventing young people from pursuing their dreams.Besides, he stopped the narrative right when they had to spend the money because that is where the narrative stopped for them. Where would you have preferred for him to have stopped?
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Well how much were the young entrepreneurs supposed to spend? How can you say it's too much if you don't know how much it is?
It’s not up to me to say how much is too much. Neither is it up to you. It’s up to the people being extorted by the government to decide. If you can’t comprehend that small notion your devotion to individual liberty is seriously in question. Liberty. You know, the very foundation upon which our society was built. Being chipped away one regulation at a time.
Well, it's up to you to decide apparently that ANY money is too much. Fairytales and moonbeams with you. The people shouldn't be expected to pay for any roads, sales tax permits... nothing. You live in a fantasy world. Where is or has this approach worked?
It worked pretty well in the USA right up to the introduction of the administrative state. Sometimes you astound me. Is there any governmental interference that you won’t defend? You may not realize it but you seem to advocate for a police state. There is no fantasy about how that kind of society operates.
Yes, Dan, I am against confiscatory government policies, that's why I asked how much they were expected to pay for the start-up costs. You were critical of the costs without even knowing what they were.
The criticism is not against the costs per se, but rather the idea the government should step in and shatter their dreams.
Well, again... I can't figure out if their dreams are shattered if they're snowflakes that don't wanna put up $100 to get a career off the ground. You've accepted a second hand narrative without the most important questions being asked or answered. How much? A $100 cost is different than a $100,000 cost.
