Jeff Thredgold’s wish: Make legislators run a business
Jeff Thredgold is an economic consultant who has been writing a weekly column (now online) called TeaLeaf: Understanding Today’s Economy, since 1976. His column has good information about economics and the economy.
This week his column focused on a list of “Wouldn’t it be nice if…”
My favorite: Wouldn’t it be nice if …
…each long-term member of Congress was required to take a year off, start a new business with limited funding, and then deal with the complexities and hassles THEY have created
True. The rules and regulations stifling small businesses are horrendous. They increase the cost of goods and services while not doing what they are intended to do. Case is point is OSHA, which created by well-meaning legislators and signed into law by President Nixon in 1970.
OSHA is supposed to protect U.S. workers from the big, bad corporations. Now, I will grant that companies took advantage of workers and spent little money on safety. Many workers were killed and injured due to employer negligence or downright criminal neglect. But…
OSHA has turned into a bureaucratic nightmare. My favorite craziness is that the code even defines the font size you must use to print out the OSHA poster that must be displayed in your business. How is that helping make the workplace safer?!
I’ll bet if each congressperson had to run a business for two years, they would run screaming back into Congress and throw out all the stupid laws. Or am I dreaming?
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