Wednesday, January 1, 2014

"Easier to open in Siberia than California"

"Under the current U.S. business climate, regulatory and tax restrictions tend to curb otherwise dynamic entrepreneurial energy," Puzder said. "We'd love to see more growth in domestic markets. Unfortunately, it's easier for our franchisees to open a restaurant in Siberia than in California."

Fast food CEO: How govt regulation is driving us abroad

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"It may have been the least productive year for Congress in history, at least in terms of passing laws – fewer than 60 of which made it through the House and Senate and were signed by President Barack Obama."

"Across the country, however, state lawmakers were busy getting more than 40,000 bills passed, ones that tackle everything from drones to food stamp benefits."

40,000 new laws take effect in 2014

8 comments:

The Dude said...
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edutcher said...

President Selfie's a better Commie than Vlad.

Whoda thunk?

/sarc

AllenS said...

State legislatures should be part time work.

Unknown said...

The left love to sing the praises of government regulation. How could we survive without it?

Ask people who are retired from running private small businesses and they will tell you that if they had to do it all over again today, they couldn't. Not in this environment. (and the occupy-Democrat-Authoritarian-left have the nerve to whine about businesses who move over-seas? It's the left's punitive taxes, restrictions, red tape, and shake-down regulations that are doing the forcing)

This is what will replace the regulatory state in the not to distant future:

"Hillary is the one who can fully remake the United States into some version of Western Europe or, yet more frighteningly, China, a permanently stratified state capitalism governed by quasi-totalitarian bureaucrats. (We can call this system Soros Marxism, meaning a ruling clique of increasingly rich corporate czars employing a propagandistic veneer of socialist equality to keep the power and wealth for themselves.)" -- Roger Simon

Unknown said...

Non-related - but - yesterday I heard ABC News radio report, breathlessly, that there have been 6 million ObamaCare sign ups. They did say - "when combined with Medicaid", but really? really ABC? ABC must get direct copy from the White House.

ricpic said...

Although there are think tanks like the Cato Institute and The American Enterprise Institution that tirelessly promulgate the free market message, they reach only a tiny percentage of the population. Until one of the two parties stops being apologetic about economic freedom and starts offering bills repealing smothering government rules and regulations, I'm looking at you, Republicans, until that day our course is set for poverty.

Dust Bunny Queen said...

They did say - "when combined with Medicaid",

Yay!!!! more people are on welfare than ever. What a great accomplishment.

Revenant said...

I'm looking at you, Republicans

The free market offers comparatively few opportunities for political graft. I wouldn't hold your breath expecting the GOP to start supporting it.

Individual Republicans, sure. The party as a whole, not so much.