Ahhh, my simple friend. Life in your naive, little world is so different from reality.
Why do you think all those regulations came about? What would prompt someone to even think about imposing a regulation? A regulation on what? There had to be a reason, a circumstance, a "what" in order for someone to feel a regulation was necessary.
Because we are a nation comprised of nitwits like you, who "FEEL" things, and get all emotive about it, and decide they can "fix" a problem with another knee-jerk regulation. Because politicians have learned, they can remain in power by telling you they have done something about the problem by enacting another idiotic regulation... and this has gone on year after year, decade after decade. We now have massive bureaucratic regulations on nearly everything, and it simply chokes capitalism.
Whether it's large businesses polluting or small businesses hiring people and paying them under the table to avoid contributing to unemployment insurance, for example, or hiring part time workers who are presently collecting welfare or other benefits on the side to "one-man businesses" run by greedy people who cut corners when it comes to safety to selling inferior products/services.....every rule and regulation came about because something had to be addressed.
Right, and yet... There are still businesses polluting, small business hiring and paying under the table, greedy people cutting corners, and selling inferior products. All the regulations have not eliminated those things, have they? You have to ask yourself at some point, what are we doing wrong? It's certainly not because we aren't passing enough regulations!
Let me walk you through a real-life case... The EPA banned swimming in West Point lake because of excessive "fecal bacteria" (SHIT) in the water. Shocked by this revelation, the local officials began looking for the source, come to find, the city of Atlanta was dumping raw sewage into the Chattahoochee River, which provided the source of water for West Point Lake. State Representative Wade Milam acted quickly to have the state enact a "regulation" calling for fines against Atlanta for any release of raw sewage into the river. Still, the city continued to do as always and dump raw sewage into the river. After a year, their "fines" had grown to nearly $500 million, and they weren't paying. So the people took the case to court, where the judge determined that Atlanta wouldn't have to pay the fines, because the release of sewage was "accidental", and the city wasn't responsible. On appeal, the judge ordered Atlanta to "take appropriate measures" to address the problem going forward. To this day, the city STILL dumps excess raw sewage into the river. THAT's how your regulations work.
Then there is the current Gulf Oil Crisis, where we had all kinds of safety regulations imposed on the drilling company, and we even had a special government agency to make sure the regulations were followed. We find, the MMS was spending their days surfing porn on the internet, while the drilling companies ignored the regulations. The result is what happened in the gulf, and now pinheads like you are clamoring for what? MORE REGULATIONS!
One person's American Dream can easily become another person's American Nightmare. The entrepreneur is not some angel from Heaven. For every individual who has started a business and supplied jobs there are literally hundreds who scammed both their customers and the government.
So your solution is, to make it all but impossible for a small business to operate? Yeah, I guess if you kill all potential small business, you wouldn't ever have to worry about them scamming people, huh?
Let me school your dumb ass on something here, the small businesses in America, provide 90% of all jobs in America. Hurt small business, and you hurt job creation. Simple as that. Maybe that's why we are at 10% unemployment now? Nawww... it's probably because we haven't passed enough burdensome regulations on small business! IDIOT!
Why do you think the vast majority of businesses failed within a year or two? Because they had a superior product? Because they offered superior service? Or because your heroes are nothing more than scam artists and snake oil salesmen?
Probably because they couldn't afford to pay the taxes and fees or comply with the massive red tape of all your regulations!
Yes, everyone dreams of owning their own business and being a financial success and a lot of people dream of being doctors and lawyers and achieving financial success. Fortunately, we have rules and regulations on becoming a doctor or lawyer but, unfortunately, we have either too few or unenforced rules and regulations on being a business owner.
We don't really have rules or regulations on becoming a doctor or lawyer, we have REQUIREMENTS that must be met. But then, you hit on something I want you to think about for a moment... We have too many UNENFORCED rules and regulations on small business... Your answer is to pass more regulations and rules, but how does that make them become enforced? You haven't explained that! Why would we possibly want to pass more regulations, if we can't enforce the current ones?
Just take one example. A person can open a business, collect money from clients, refuse to provide promised products/services or provide inferior products/services, then declare the company bankrupt and keep the money.
Yes, and in such a case, they can also be sued for fraud and imprisoned. Look, idiot... NO amount of regulations or fees is going to stop corrupt people from being corrupt! The real world just doesn't operate that way! For every regulation you pass, there are thousands of dishonest people out there who will find a way around your regulation. It happens every day. What you are doing is, pointing to the corrupt to pass regulations which are only followed by the honest! Your answer is to punish the honest even more!
Is that your idea of job creation? Is that what you believe makes for a thriving economy? Support those people to the point of giving them grants, removing restrictions and even going so far as to give them tax breaks on the money they received through less than honorable means?
The vast majority of business is not corrupt, the vast majority of business people are not dishonest. You approach this from the perspective that ALL business is corrupt, evil, dishonest, and looking for a way to screw someone! If that is the case, why don't we just outlaw ALL BUSINESS? .....Yeah.... We'll just let the STATE run everything, provide everything, and do everything for us! THEN we'll have no problem with corruption at all, will we?
MORON!