Lord Dominator wrote:Merrill wrote:
You must pay your employee a minimum wage. You must build a ramp for handicap access. There’s millions of pages of regulations across all levels of government if you have a business.
In the personal level, you must register your vehicle. In some places you must register your weapons (if you’re even allowed to have them). Most recently, you must wear a mask. You must put chemicals into your body.
Don’t say that laws and regulations are only must nots. That just isn’t true.
Businesses aren’t people and don’t have nearly the same rights as a person.
And while I will concede the point about must nots, have you got better examples than what are largely about public safety (the gun one excepted) of must dos that are actually unreasonably restrictive?
Businesses don’t exist in a vacuum. They are owned by people. In the case of large corporations, they are mostly owned by pension and other mutual funds. Regular, not rich people are planning their retirement on owning part of those businesses. Every law and regulation that hurts profit doesn’t really affect the rich. They already have wealth. It’s the everyman that’s trying to raise his family, care for elderly parents, plan for the future. That’s who gets hurt.
As for other personal ’must do’ examples, honestly I don’t right this minute. It’s late where I am. I’m sure I’ll think of more tomorrow, but that’s not really the point. You also could think of examples if you want to be open to viewpoints different than what has come to you in the past.
