BDKJMU wrote:Ibanez wrote: not that I agree with Jon, but he is saying the 3415 rules are for protecting air and water among other things. God, you are dim.
If you believe any of that crap you're as ignorant as he is.
Since you didn't answer my other sincere questions, here's another. What do you think the 3415 new rules are designed to do? You've obviously found a generalized article without meat that resonates with your ideology and are now wandering into Spanos country. Congrats!
Ivy, running a small business for the last 8 years, I can tell that it's virtually impossible to keep up with regulations on a local, state, and federal level. I'll guarantee you NO small business and probably none of the medium to large sized business are compliant. There certainly is an undue regulatory burden…at least on paper.
I've gone through a couple of audits from state agencies and they basically amount to a shake down. "We've found $47,000 worth of fines but we're willing to settle for a mere $2500." That $2500 is a fraction of what it would cost me to employ compliance personnel to make sure all of our i's are dotted.
Curiously enough, we hired Paychex last year to do payroll - something I've done myself for the previous 6 years, without any problems or penalties. In addition to doing basic payroll functions and tax filings, they also sent a salesman who had spent most of his career managing large firms to convince me to sign up for their $1200/month government compliance service. He warned me that since Obama had taken office, it was a foregone conclusion that OSHA and the EPA would come knocking within the next 6 months as they had to all of his clients and would be leveling massive fines without the services that Paychex offered. He said that all we would have to do is show that we are a Paychex client and the regulators would shake my hand and tell us to have a nice day.
Tragically, we deemed the service more than we could afford. Then our insurance agent came in with the most common list of OSHA and EPA regulations we needed to pass muster and as long as we documented the checklist and showed efforts in that regard, we'd be fine. It cost us nothing.
I wonder if Paychex is against all of these regulations?
I'd be surprised if a democratic administration is lighter on regulations, but I'm guessing the 3400 number isn't all that high and I'd be surprised if many of them are not in fact new at all, but annual tweaks on things that already exist. I also have read that the number of regulations tend to increase in the last two years of an administration. At least they did under Bush.
We have 316 million people and 3.79 million square miles of blessed country. It might take more than few sheets of paper to manage all of that.
Conks…never appreciative of what it takes to run a large, kick ass, country with clean air, water, and modern infrastructure.
