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And yet USA ranks as #2 (XXX old report, wikipedia cites http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ease_of_Doing_Business_Index http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ease_of_Doing_Bu
by guard-of-terra 15y ago
And yet USA ranks as #2 (XXX old report, wikipedia cites http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ease_of_Doing_Business_Index http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ease_of_Doing_Business_Index #4) the most friendly country to small business.
You might wonder how, say, #22 feels like, but then you might also reconsider taking such lists into account.
- HaloZero 15y agoI think this is a particular article related to San Francisco, and not the US in general.
- _delirium 15y agoAnd even more specifically retail food service, one of the more regulation-heavy areas. Starting a small tech business is a lot easier.
- sliverstorm 15y agoAnd, considering the 3 countries ranked higher are the size of medium to medium-small US states, the USA would seem to be doing pretty well.
- yew 15y agoIf "doing pretty well" looks like this on a global scale, we've got some serious issues to resolve. Of course, I suspect the actual issue is that this is the food industry, which is (as already mentioned) heavily regulated for not entirely unreasonable reasons.
- yummyfajitas 15y agoRegulating food safety might be reasonable, but none of the regulations being discussed are related to food safety. (At least, I don't think they are. Is a toaster in a coffee shop somehow unsanitary?)
- yew 15y agoProbably not. I said "not entirely unreasonable" rather than "reasonable" for a reason. Anyway, my main point was that if the US is really in the top four countries for ease of doing business, we have a major problem.
- nirvana 15y agoThe USA ranks #10 in the Heritage Foundation's Index of Economic Freedom. (I think their methodology is more accurate) http://www.heritage.org/index/default http://www.heritage.org/index/default