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You can have both a safely regulated economy as well as a non-burdensome one. America has it particularly bad because a good portion of the population doesn't b
by 3pt14159 11y ago
You can have both a safely regulated economy as well as a non-burdensome one. America has it particularly bad because a good portion of the population doesn't believe in regulations _at all_.
A smarter strategy would be to see what other countries in the world do that is both effective and efficient.
- emodendroket 11y agoAmerica's case is particularly complex, I think, because of the extent to which rules for everything vary between states or even municipalities.
- kspaans 11y agoCanada is in the same boat, with taxes and regulations changing between provinces. Yet they don't manage quite as much complexity in their tax code!
- emodendroket 11y agoYes, there are a handful of federal systems like this, but I think they end up increasing costs pretty significantly for people who want to operate nationally.
- maxxxxx 11y agoThat's because the political dialog in the US supports only extreme viewpoints. "Regulations are good and no change needed" or "Regulations bad and all need to be abolished". There is no place for saying that some work and some don't and need to be tweaked.
- wtbob 11y ago> America has it particularly bad because a good portion of the population doesn't believe in regulations _at all_. I don't think our crappy regulations are properly blameable on the people who believe regulations are crappy, but rather on the sort of people we hire and retain as civil servants. 'Good enough for government work,' I'm told, used to be praise; it sure isn't any longer. Nowadays both civil servants and employees of large corporations are bureaucrats first, servants second (if at all).