The West is Legalizing Itself Out of Business!

If I were the president or the prime minister, the one group of people I would help first before any woke special interest cause is the everyday entrepreneurs. The shopkeepers, pub owners, taxi drivers, and cleaning services that keep people employed and taxes flowing. In other words, the very backbone of any Western economy. But what do governments at every level, from federal, state, county, and city, do every year instead?

They make it harder to operate by passing more laws, rules, certifications, taxes, and inspections in the name of protecting the public. What total bullshit!

Congress has enacted between 200–600 statutes during its 115 biennial terms, so more than 30,000 statutes have been enacted since 1789. An Act to regulate the Time and Manner of Oaths was passed by the United States Congress and was signed by President George Washington on June 1, 1789. Astonishingly parts of it remain in effect to this day.

My home state, Florida, routinely passes over 5,000 laws a year. On average, states have 135,000 regulatory restrictions on their books. But our winner, the most heavily regulated state in the nation, with an astonishing 395,608 regulatory restrictions, is California. As a result, nearly 300 major companies have moved their corporate headquarters out of the state in the last four years. Small…