May 30, 2012 - 11:53 am
Istria Cafe is a small business in Chicago, one of the most over-regulated cities in America. PJTV’s Alexis Garcia interviews the Pribaz brothers, the owners of Istria Cafe, to show you how regulations are destroying businesses and jobs. Would you believe that it is almost impossible to run a business in Chicago without violating rules and regulations, and paying extraordinary fines? From utilities, to health care Alexis Garcia tells you why some businesses might not survive in the down economy.
As an entrepreneur, this makes a lot of sense. Before we even had a sale, despite having an extremely useful product, we had to shell out to incorporate, get a lawyer, get an accountant, and more. Everything cost a ton of money.
Government regulations are subsidies for lawyers and accountants.
Rasmussen: Disdain Continues for Bernanke and Fed Wednesday, 30 May 2012 11:28 AM By Todd Beamon
http://www.newsmax.com/US/rasmussen-bernanke-federal-reserve/2012/05/30/id/440626?s=al&promo_code=F0EA-1
20,000 apply for 877 jobs at auto plant.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/47614988
But…I thought business owners were people who should be crucified? Isn’t that what the communists, I mean our Washington leadership, tell us? At least it’s an evil thing if they’re running a business started with money they earned and saved. If it’s running on political payoffs, I mean tax payer subsidized, it’s ‘jobs created!’ and is a campaign talking point. Right?? Am I missing something here?
I live in Colorado, which isn’t so bad for regulations. Even though, I had to buy two hours of attorney time before I could hire an employee. I can’t imagine how hard places like Illinois and California make it.
My husband and I spent three years in the Republic of the Philippines while he was in the Navy. In order to run a black market store (which was illegal there) one had to go down to the City Hall and procure a license. ….. to run a black market store which was….. illegal.
Corruption, graft and crime, Chicago has become the second third world city in the US. First place goes to Detroit.
New York ain’t bad. Now Boston, that’s hell! I have a friend who opened a store in Boston, registered to vote as a Republican, and immediately got slammed with fines and worse! Can’t speak to Chicago.
Being somewhat familiar with a small manufacturing facility with 5 other locations worldwide I can say that the USA is only slightly easier to operate in then maybe The Russian Federation. As our public accounting firm has said several times, we are fortunate to have started business in the mid-1980′s because we would not stand a chance today.
isn’t this called fascism? Where the government controls production, but the production is “owned” by private parties? Seems with all these stupid overbearing regulationis, permits, taxes, fines, etc, the government DO control business.
This is in Chicago, the font of our present administration nationwide. Can there be any doubt this sort of thinking is what lies ahead for the nation of REAL change is not effected at the elections? The “Chicago way” will surely doom our culture if allowed to increase any more. Chicago need to cut about eighty percent of “public employees”, get them off the backs of the normal folk so they CAN open and prosper in businesses like this one. I wonder what percentage of Chicago/Cook County residents work for government at some level, My bet is that it nears three fourths.
Sound like the peasants who live in the peoples republic of chicago are starting to realize the MISTAKE of giving away their rights to their elected corrupocrats.
9. Tionico
“isn’t this called fascism? Where the government controls production, but the production is “owned” by private parties?”
Yes, that’s precisely what Fascism was. Leftists like to pretend that Mussolini and his disciples were at the opposite extreme from their own positions, but in practice there were only two significant differences between Mussolini’s system and Communism:
1. Economically, fascists were less extreme and less impractical. Communists murdered the owners, and then were amazed that no one knew how to run the businesses. Fascists left the owners in nominal control, but heavily taxed (as well as strongly encouraged to give a piece of their business to someone influential in the Party), heavily regulated, and kept scared of what might happen if it was concluded that they weren’t serving the Party and their country. Such regimes still hold back economic growth, but (unlike Russia under the Bolsheviks) not badly enough to *immediately* have people starving.
2. Fascism avoided much of the cognitive dissonance required of leftists by inverting much of the value system. Leftists (and both old and new liberals) exalt freedom and equality while promoting a system that produces a privileged elite and enslaved masses; fascists say that it’s right for the strong to oppress the weak. (There’s still a lie buried there – fascist elites rise not from superiority, but from being sociopathic thugs in a society of people too good to fight back in kind – but it’s smaller and easier to keep buried than the contradictions of leftism.) Leftists abhor war, but somehow it always becomes necessary. Fascists exalt war. Leftists abhor violence within their society, but somehow it becomes necessary to drive tanks over those protestors. Fascists know they keep power by violence. Leftists, liberals, and progressives think they are for the little guy, but promote regulations that hurt small businesses far more than corporations. “Corporatism” was Mussolini’s alternate name for his system. Leftists classify people into groups and deal with the alleged leaders of these groups rather than individuals; fascism is all about group membership, and fascists openly denigrate individualists.
But wait you say, what about 6 million Jews? Murderous antisemitism was something Hitler and other Nazis grafted onto fascism, not an inherent part of fascism. Just a few years after Hitler’s military placed Franco into power, the ungrateful fascist bastard not only refused to join in Hitler’s war, but (unlike the UK and USA) he sheltered every Jew who managed to escape across the border. And this in a country which had been Judenfrei since 1492. (There’s also a story about a Spanish consul in a Turkish port, a papal legate who later became a pope, and a ship loaded with Jewish children who magically became Spanish Catholics until the ship reached Israel…) Mussolini still needed Hitler, so he had to give up a few Jews, but rounding them up was never a priority for his government. Finally, Hitler’s other ally Japan (not exactly fascist, but not much different) also sheltered Jewish refugees. As the Wehrmacht raced across Russian, the Japanese ambassador in Moscow passed out many visas for Jews to come to Japan. When Stalin decided to evacuate his government from Moscow, this ambassador stayed up all night signing blank visas and threw them out the train window as he left. This wasn’t in accordance with Tojo’s policy, but Tojo’s government honored the visas for those who managed to get tickets on the trans-Siberian railroad and then catch a boat to Japan.
But the really bad news is, we’ve had a government of “liberal fascists” at least since Hoover (who, contrary to liberal/progressive/leftist lies, intervened far more deeply in the economy than any previous American government). Sometime between 1928 and 1944, the questions dominating politics became not whether the government should run your life and pick your pocket to pay off favored interests, but rather of the balance between sticking their noses into your bedroom and their hands into your pocket. Every President since 1929 had a corporatist philosophy and acted like the people were to serve them instead of vice-versa. (“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”)
When we lived in the Philippines it was illegal to run a black market store but one could go down to the City Hall and take out a permit, to run a black market store. which was illegal.
We are a third world country just like Obama promised. Y’all just weren’t paying attention.
For real building and permit costs I suggest Rodney Dangerfield’s speech in Back To School.