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The first link in the article is to a PDF that covers the issue with much more specific information. https://ij.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Barriers-to-Busi

The first link in the article is to a PDF that covers the issue with much more specific information. https://ij.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Barriers-to-Business-WEB-FINAL.pdf https://ij.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Barriers-to-Busine...

mrtksn 4y ago
I skimmed the linked document and I didn't see the actual steps, did I miss those? Can you give me a page? There are again tables about number of steps etc. I find that ridiculous. It would be funny if the regulators respond by combining the steps though. Instead of 1. book sanitary checks 2. pay sanitary check fees, maybe it can be solved in one quick step of 1. booking sanitary checks and pay check fees
- acomjean 4y ago
  There is a sort of state by state summary at the end, about all the forms they had to fill in. Boston's is on 98. They're not counted specifically, but general steps. It seems counter intutive but adding another agency (the "start a business" agency) might help. That group will get fed up with the process and since they're doing it repeatably they can see the issuses and perhaps force a fix. Most people go through this process once and there is little incentive to fix. (I had to go to the historical commision to get new windows a 2 month process.. it was a pain, but now I'm done I've never revisited)
  - mrtksn 4y ago
    Found it but they don't seem to specify what steps they find unnecessary.
blitzar 4y ago
I had to wade through 5 pages of fluff to get to the executive summary. Then I noticed there are 138 more pages. Finally they actually just list the barriers by state - and each state is 1-2 pages (basically repeated over and over for each of the states) - much more useful. Included among the heinous barries to freedom to live the american dream are things like "Hand washing regulations" and "Paying Tax".
- bestcoder69 4y ago
  I would eat at restaurants way less if hand-washing was left up to a restaurant’s discretion. I can’t be alone in this. And I wouldn’t be alone once we saw the rise in salads containing ass-to-hand-to-food-transmitted noroviruses. But let’s say restaurant-goers power through the higher rate of stomach bugs, because the food is so worth it. There are a lot of jobs that are harder to do when you’re at home shitting[0] or, with some probability, dead. So, you have to pay the price somewhere: the business pays (fee or lower demand), the government pays (eat the cost or deal with angry citizens or angry businesses), or the consumer pays (health or foregoing restaurants) etc. But, ofc these folx rarely discuss many of the relevant trade-offs. Unless you were born yesterday, it’s obvious what they’re up to. [0]: An assumption on my part. As a coder I’d be fine :)
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mrtksn 4y ago

I skimmed the linked document and I didn't see the actual steps, did I miss those? Can you give me a page? There are again tables about number of steps etc. I find that ridiculous. It would be funny if the regulators respond by combining the steps though. Instead of 1. book sanitary checks 2. pay sanitary check fees, maybe it can be solved in one quick step of 1. booking sanitary checks and pay check fees

acomjean 4y ago
There is a sort of state by state summary at the end, about all the forms they had to fill in. Boston's is on 98. They're not counted specifically, but general steps. It seems counter intutive but adding another agency (the "start a business" agency) might help. That group will get fed up with the process and since they're doing it repeatably they can see the issuses and perhaps force a fix. Most people go through this process once and there is little incentive to fix. (I had to go to the historical commision to get new windows a 2 month process.. it was a pain, but now I'm done I've never revisited)
- mrtksn 4y ago
  Found it but they don't seem to specify what steps they find unnecessary.

blitzar 4y ago

I had to wade through 5 pages of fluff to get to the executive summary. Then I noticed there are 138 more pages. Finally they actually just list the barriers by state - and each state is 1-2 pages (basically repeated over and over for each of the states) - much more useful. Included among the heinous barries to freedom to live the american dream are things like "Hand washing regulations" and "Paying Tax".

bestcoder69 4y ago
I would eat at restaurants way less if hand-washing was left up to a restaurant’s discretion. I can’t be alone in this. And I wouldn’t be alone once we saw the rise in salads containing ass-to-hand-to-food-transmitted noroviruses. But let’s say restaurant-goers power through the higher rate of stomach bugs, because the food is so worth it. There are a lot of jobs that are harder to do when you’re at home shitting[0] or, with some probability, dead. So, you have to pay the price somewhere: the business pays (fee or lower demand), the government pays (eat the cost or deal with angry citizens or angry businesses), or the consumer pays (health or foregoing restaurants) etc. But, ofc these folx rarely discuss many of the relevant trade-offs. Unless you were born yesterday, it’s obvious what they’re up to. [0]: An assumption on my part. As a coder I’d be fine :)
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