generic-user-1 said:
obamacare is a joke, universal healthcare light. and the epa is bad at regulating, not harsh. you can build a chemical plant next to a freshwater reservoir. thats a freaking joke. northern europe has realy hard regulations, a realy universal healthcare, 48hrs/week max, high taxes, high wages, next to none venture capital, but it works well.
and the labor participation in the us is so low because you have way to much disabled people, maybe obamacare isnt so bad after all... |
disabled as defined by regulation. We have 12 million less people working than we did 6 years ago. That is not good. EPA is very harsh, and very bad. Can't really compare europe and the us, its like apples and oranges. We still have open immigration here, which europe is partly experiencing with the EU and the problems it has caused. Sometimes people forget that each state over here has the full scale governemtn any nation would, and than we layer the federal government on top of that. Every state has its own constitution, its own congress (law making body), its own judicial system, its own state level army, its own police, fire and medical response. Not sure how it is in most of Europe, but as far as I know its not that way. The EU is making it that way, but it is a far way off. It would be like the French making regultion laws for the Germans. My in laws have recently immigrated from Germany and they are very shocked and suprised at how the business climate is over here. Its a differnt kind of atmoshpere.
Edit: I guess I can use their case as an example. They wanted to start a food cart to go to local events and sell food, being German they wanted to do Brats and other german dishes. Which is a great idea, plenty of people love German food, they have the know how and time, but I told them its not something worth doing. I said chances are they would not turn a profit due to all the regultaion when trying to get into events. I am in the food business my self and have been for 15 years. Once here they made some friends and one had a son that they were financing a food cart for, it ened up a massive failure. Made me glad I gave them good advice. To be able to sell food from their cart they needed different permits for every event, every different city (bigger cities may be divided into different areas were they may need even further approval). After all the ermits and fees it just wasn't worth it. A food cart is a pretty basic business, they planned on no employees either and it just isn't worth it. I my self would start my own business (a pizza place) but it just isn't worth the risk. Start up costs are higher than ever, regultion from the state for haveing employees is high, county and city regultions, as a small business I wouldn't even be affected by obamacare and it just isn't worth it. Sure I can get a loan to get everyting going, but is it really worth the risk? The city I live and work in has only grown over the last 15 years (southern california) but the number of places we have to compete with has only dropped. AS other pizza places have failed, no one has opened up more.
