The opponents of capitalism are getting their way. Does it matter? Well, that depends on how much you value living in a democracy (a republic actually).
The anti-capitalist socialist-progressive agenda is driving up the cost of running a business. Small business owners and people wanting to open small businesses are learning that federal, state and local regulations are driving them away from business ownership and destroying all desire to try it any more. The cost, time and effort required to keep up with all the regulation nonsense makes business ownership beyond undesirable.
Here are some links describing how ridiculous it's becoming:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/273586/lemonade-crackdown-iain-murray
http://www.mofreedom.org/2011/07/the-government-war-on-kid-run-concession-stands/
Monetary cost to businesses is $1.75 Trillion?!?! It costs businesses $10,000 per employee to ensure they're in compliance with regulations?!?! And we wonder why businesses don't hire more people, why our unemployment rate is getting so difficult to reduce and why employees don't get raises that keep up with inflation?
While the examples above are not about incorporated businesses, examples for those are no less common and no less insane. That some Democrats and federal agencies were recently seriously considering reclassifying all farm machinery as commercial vehicles is testamony to how regulation-crazed these people are. Here's a couple of links about that kind of control:
http://www.gazettevirginian.com/index.php/news/34-news/3739-proposed-rule-on-farms-called-absurd
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/275044/call-department-agriculture-jonah-goldberg
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/275054/freedom-dies-each-paper-cut-jonah-goldberg
Don't you ask yourself, what nature of person would think any of that is a good idea? In a word, socialist. To socialists control is everything. After all, all forms of socialism including Marxism and communism have as their key feature control or ownership of production and delivery of goods and services. And boiled down to two words, central planning. Today's socialists deny they're socialists; they 'only' want to control (centrally plan) production and services as much as possible for the good of the people. Pardon me?
Do any of these areas I'm covering in this blog sound like steps in a socialist direction? Consider that we have a rapidly increasing amount of regulations so completely lacking in logic that they can only be explained as blind adherence to an objective/agenda regardless whether it actually makes sense for a democracy. The regulations are 'necessary', regardless whether the regulations might destroy entrepreneurship in this country. What are we teaching our lemonade stand entrepreneurs anyway? What have they learned from their brush with big brother? What have they learned about daring to do something useful without government approval?
Comply or else. Heavy-handed, mindless and inane regulations are a key tool of socialists. While we're not a socialist country (yet), there can be no doubt that the progressive agenda is taking us down the path in exactly that direction. Check these out:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/273350/change-you-can-believe-jonah-goldberg
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/257302/socialism-back-kevin-d-williamson
I'll have more to say about our socialist direction in future blogs.
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