"It's hard to imagine a more stupid or dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong" Thomas Sowell
Fluffybrute Nah mate you’re the one who’s wrong. CEOs and business owners can lose millions of dollars when they’re wrong. Government officials don’t lose a dime if they screw up.
@@manuforever143 On hard Buisiness related topics i would tend to agree with you, on Employer/Employee related topics i disagree, thats were the employers can milk their employees without sacrifising anything for being wrong, cause they can employ another right away.
@Fluffybrute bro a CEO is literally getting their income from directing their business in the 'right' direction. If they make a 'wrong' turn they 'pay' immeasurably as it is their business / their company. Of course, their may be some immorality in their practice (some of the time) but if we look at right / wrong simply in financial / economy terms, a 'wrong' move will make them 'pay', hence they can only afford to be 'right' to maintain their top spot - otherwise people realise they are incompetent and will request a turnover of power. Also, hierarchies of competence can only ever function if those at the top are expert. For example, you hope the best neurosurgeon in a hospital has almoust flawless knowledge and ability (high competence), and if he isn't up to scratch he will pay by being demoted. However, I somewhat agree with you because if we look at the brain dead cheese puff sitting in the White House at the moment, who doesnt understand basic science (that would tell him global warming is infact real and not a myth) he is not paying enough for being wrong, and someone else will have to. Of course there are many other examples of corrupt power too. But the main thing is to not confuse this with the model of capitalism as a whole.
@Fluffybrute You're talking Fortune 500 companies that have had the Fed pass laws to make sure they don't face competition and other scummy practices. We're talking about small businesses here, the lifeblood of America. You make a wrong step on top of a small business and you're done for.
As a small business owner myself, this video was infuriating! I agree with speaker - some regulation is just common sense. The over regulation is done for the following reasons: 1. To raise revenue. 2. To protect monopolies and existing businesses from up start competition. 3. To justify a bureaucrats fat-cat salary. They come up with new regulations to make it seem like their job is needed - to give the illusion that their job is never done.
Never even thought about the 2nd one, damn. No offense to you or your, but because of your comment I feel like this is the only actual informative vid from prager u. Since they like to protect those same big businesses/oligarchs, i hate how a lot of conservatives seem to treat politics like a sports game and not actually think that maybe theres a reason they are constantly arguing with liberals.
Government functionaries like to assert authority. Bullies actually. It not about safety anymore. Read Joel Salatin's book Everything I want to do is illegal. My favorite youtube video on the subject, California cops and fda thugs go into a organic food store with SWAT team tactics. Guns drawn, looking to shoot what? Unarmed people occupied the store, forced to the ground at gun point. The larger processed food industries thrive in a controled bussiness of regulation. We live in frightening times.
@@morphor I have to disagree, they have a set of values and they stick to them, regardless if the the issue is small business or big. If you want to deregulate small business you must do the same for big business.(by they I mean Prager)
If you would live in the European Union, you would have to deal with at least triple the nonsense. Over here we have whole campus-sized buildings filled with nothing but bureaucrats that have to justify their existence by inventing new ways to torment everyone (especially businesses) every day. The only reason at least the big companies can deal with it rather easily is that the whole system is also insanely corrupt.
Yup, same thing in Germany, big business supports big regulation, sure regulations damage them too, but small business get's killed by these regulations, once there is only one company left in an area, they start exploiting people like crazy, if there is only one company you better accept what ever job they offer to you for how ever little money they offer you.
Oh, and one more thing. Thomas Jefferson had it right: "A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have."
One commenter mentioned that big businesses love regulations, and he's entirely correct. They do so because it takes some of their would-be competitors out of the market. How? For the simple reason that a big company is much better able and comfortable complying with such regulations thanks to more ample resources, whereas those same rules would be a lot more burdensome to a smaller one with less capital. So the end result, it discourages people with less capital to start (or expand) their business, and thus compete with the big ones.
@@sarahb9831 Yeah, and speaking of that, Amazon is at the forefront of the campaign for raising the federal minimum wage to $15. And for the same reason - because it would raise the barrier to entry for would-be entrepreneurs, especially in areas with low costs of living, like someone trying to open or expand some spartan coffee shop in some border town like McAllen, TX. And that's by the way of the reasons it's crucial to leave such regulations up to localities, states at most. Because cities vary wildly in cost of living across the US, and $15 is worth twice as much in Sebring, FL than in Beverly Hills, CA. So raising it like that would price out a lot of businesses in smaller cities from expansion, as well as price out workers with little to no experience from starting their climb in the economic ladder, typically leading to higher unemployment and a rise in the cost of certain goods and services. Which is why it's best to leave them up to the various cities (and states) that know better their own job market situations and costs of living. Anyway, what Amazon is doing is one of the reasons I want money to be taken out of politics. Not for the same reasons liberals want it (to rein in business), but for two other reasons: 1) To keep the bigger ones from having rules that favor them at the expense of the smallers ones; 2) I see these kinds of donations as basically politicians extorting businesses for laws they were gonna pass anyway. Republicans should be for less regulations anyway, with or without contributions. They're _supposed to be_ the party of capitalism. And they shouldn't need multimillion-dollar donations to do that. Same for Democrats; they're supposed to be the party of less capitalism (or socialism, or whatever they want to call themselves). And they're gonna try and regulate and tax anyway, with or without contributions. So these contributions are money wasted on politicians that are best redirected into the market, in R&D, or reinvested in business expansion and job creation. Not to mention the contributions favor the bigger companies that help write the regulations themselves.
@@russellstephan6844 They don't necessarily want to bring to heel; they just want to control it. At least the Democrats do. Because big businesses typically employ a lot of people, so it's not in the interest of a politician - right or left - to be seen as responsible for so many people losing their jobs if he pushed a certain company to failure. That's why Obama bailed out the banks instead of letting them fail - and then regulated the heck out of them with Dodd-Frank (which by the way also ended up hurting the smaller banks way more, until Republicans rolled back some parts of it). And that's why he also bailed out failing GM, which is still failing and selling less and less cars, instead of letting fail and have better, more efficient ones take its place. Liberals don't hate (big) business; they want to nationalize it, or get as close to that as possible through regulating it to the minutest detail. What they really hate is private ownership and want the government/collective to have a greater and greater say in how companies (and even people for that matter) run affairs, how much money they make, etc. in the same way they want the government to take over healthcare entirely, then oil companies, and so on.
LOL Nice one... Actually, when he was describing that situation I thought "Why not mount a door that swings both ways?" But then I realized - that would be considered a violation by BOTH agencies, rather than a fix. Perfect examples of government out of control...
It’s true! I live in brazil and my father runs a market here in Rio, and he gotta have the products (ie: packed nuts, packed chocolate etc.) with the warning “may contain nuts/chocolate” etc. That or he gets fined by these governments agencies
I work for a fresh crab meat, that said its "FRESH CRAB MEAT" we have to put in the nutricional labels thats FRESH CRAB MEAT. i guess americans are too stupid to read labels by themself.
If you make a mistake you pay thousands of dollars in fines. If the government makes a mistake, you aren't allowed to sue them. And yet we continue to elect politicians instead of tarring and feathering them.
@@thediamondarcher2880 you're right. The good ones get frustrated with all the corruption and graft, and quit after several terms. While the bad ones stay in for 40+ years.
I remember the impact of poorly thought regulations on my parent's liquor-convenience store. The City of Walnut Creek decided that in case of flooding, local stores might sell spoiled food to people and thus in any store that sold any food items, all stock must be stored on shelves at least 8" off the floor. 1. Such flooding had never happened 2. Our store was on a hill, so my parents told the City if our floor was 8" under water the rest of the City was about 70 feet under water. 3. We didn't sell fresh goods or produce, only things in cans, kegs, bottles and plastic packages. 4. Since local stores are part of the community and wouldn't last long if they sold bad food to people, there's a trust connection with your customers. After being part of the community for so long it would never occur to them to screw their neighbors. None of that mattered, my parents had to pay $5000 for uneccesary shelves for a non-problem in the face of a non-disaster that would never occur. That's a lot of money for a small business.
Personally, after I had paid out that money to unneeded shelving, I would walk into the next city council meeting with a Louisville slugger, and either leave with a check for $5000.00 plus expenses, or every council member would never walk again.....and I would still get my money from the trembling city attorney. But that's just my opinion......
I call it government abuse. The government does whatever it wants, whenever it wants to do it, and you either comply with their stupid demands or initiate a lawsuit that lasts for years and costs you much more than just complying.
@@3ball260 Vaush and the Majority Report find the best conservatives to dunk on. 😂 You guys need to join me and tell #coldfeetcrowder to quit being a coward and debate Sam Seder
When they inspect your business, they HAVE to find something wrong or there is no reason to justify their job. Also, you can bet it all that they know how the owner is registered politically. This enables them to alter just how hard the hammer is going to fall on you. Bureaucracy is a blight on a nation.
I never thought about that, but sadly it makes a lot of sense. It's better for those of us who are conservative to live, work, set up businesses, etc. in the regions where we are surrounded by like-minded people.
There are zero pieces of paper that indicate if im conservative or liberal.. the governent makes zero decisions about my business based on my political choices. If you're ignorant enough to register yourself as a one party voter, you've only admitted your simple minded ignorance and deserve whatever "mistreatment" you percieve to ensure.
Firstly, his factory is located in new mexico. Secondly, he doesn't own a bakery, his factory produces 12 million cookies a day. Thirdly, the door regulations he mentioned aren't anywhere in the department of agriculture's regulations since only FDA has jurisdiction over construction compliance so that's a complete fabricated lie. Lastly, according to his own book and on an interview with fox news, he admitted his revenue is upwards of $20 million and a profit margin of at least 30% en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Semprevivo
My first time becoming self-employed was when I dropped my “liberal” description and became a conservative. For those of you who have always been employed by someone else who worked long hours, especially at the beginning, and had to think about all the regulations have no idea what you are talking about when you talk about those evil business owners. We take the risks while you don’t.
@@napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676 A lot of them most likely either aren't, or are too rich/to big to be affected considering the fact they are always pushing for more taxes.
@@napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676 go away troll. Your arguments don't fit on this channel. I bet you aren't even a business owner who experienced this yourself. Btw, being a CEO doesnt exactly mean they founded the company they're in charge of. In case you haven't noticed, thousands of CEOs the past couple years have been mysteriously "retiring" or stepping down. In truth, they're getting out before justice hunts them down for corruption. The actions of a few don't represent the voices of everyone.
@@mikepasatieri502 Yes, because most Democrats are third-way neo-liberals. Capitalists who are virtually indistinguishable from Republicans on most economic issues.
@@TheNaikas he lied about being a small business,hes a factory owner,stands to reason everything said from that point is untrustworthy as most Prague u vids are misleading and disingenuous anyways
So, in 5 minutes I've just heard a very convincing and through argument for why there is too much regulation. I wonder if I sat the FDA down if they could give me as convincing and through an argument for why the door needs to swing a different way and why its a good thing to have two departments with conflicting standards in five minutes?
I'm not with the FDA, but I can give you a convincing argument and thorough argument for why it's good to have two departments with conflicting standards. Because if there are two departments, then each can point at the other and say that other department is at fault and thus making sure you can't be right by the law no matter what you do. And by making sure you are always in some way non-compliant, your federal government can create grounds to justify their abuse of you, making you a criminal and preventing you from finding any justice in the courts. The only ones not subject to this scrutiny and above extortion are already the ones making and upholding the laws. So it is good... if you are a politician or bureaucrat, y'know, the ones making and enforcing the laws.
4:03. I’ve worked in a metal shop for 2 years, I manufacture parts ranging from blender part to motorcycle seats. The company that work for even makes parts for spacecraft testing. The most accurate measurements that I have had to work with is 10/1000ths of an inch, which by the way is around the thickness of a strand of hair. This guy have to comply with the lettering on a package that have to be more accurate then the spacecraft parts that I have made..... just let that sink in.
I really feel bad for small businesses and entrepreneurs who have to deal with bureaucratic red tape. However, most regulations are intended to protect consumers, the environment, and workers from being exploited by mega-corporations whose only concern is to extract as much profit as possible. PragerU's solution is to vote Republican and advance neoliberal economics - In this case deregulation of industry and tax cuts to the wealthy so they and their corporate friends can enjoy even more wealth, when in reality we need to vote Democrat to protect working class Americans, while working to reform any regulations deemed restrictive for small businesses to allow them to pursue the American Dream. PragerU is only making these people's voices heard so they can manipulate the message.
@@michealfelps5777 The vast majority of Democrats are neoliberal corporatists who take in millions from billionaires and corporations, they're not radical lol. Biden advocated gutting social security on multiple occasions. The "radical socialist" part of the Democratic Party (Bernie, AOC, Omar, etc.) make up roughly 5-10 (if even that) individuals out of roughly 280 Democrat representatives. Don't worry, regardless of if Trump or Biden wins, the working class loses. The rich will get richer, the poor will get poorer.
W I don’t think your estimates are true when neoliberals still vote Democrat. The reason walk away is a thing is because they don’t recognize their party anymore. And when Nancy is calling the shots those radical views are going to be implemented or atleast tried to. Trump created the LOWEST percent of unemployment for blacks and Latinos. He is helping people get jobs and creating better lives for themselves. Though this country is not perfect I believe that trump can get down in government spending and help small businesses survive. He passed an executive order to stall payroll taxes for the households making less than 100k. So I think while the richer are getting richer, I think the poorer are getting richer as well. Without COVID I believe the country would be doing exponentially better. Leaving the country in a less than likeable state to a puppet with dementia is not what is needed. I say 4 more years.
@@michealfelps5777 Interesting take. I don't understand the first two sentences however, it's true neoliberal economic ideology is dominant in both parties, which is why Democrats who used to support working class Americans in the 60's are losing their support to Trump, because his message speaks to them. Pelosi is always at odds with the progressive wing, look at the race between Kennedy and Markey, that basically sums up the divide between the neoliberal corporate wing and the progressive wing within the party. I don't think Trump's tax cuts created the lowest unemployment (pre-covid), they were projected to be even lower if I'm not mistaken, the economy was already growing at a steady rate and unemployment was decreasing. Although the tax bill gave extra pocket money for all Americans, 80% of the benefits went to the top 1%, that's not by mistake. If demand isn't there, businesses won't open more plants in the U.S., In don't think that money was reinvested. Personally I don't believe government is the problem, Keynesian economics proved to work from the 30's to the 60's to reduce unemployment and reduce wealth and income inequality by generating jobs and taxing the wealthy and corporations. Either way a puppet gets elected, Trump is no different - taking orders from Charles Schwab, Kenneth Griffen, Ronald Cameron, Bernard Marcus, etc. (long time Republican billionare donors who are in direct contact with Trump). Foreign wars will continue to privatize natural resources to American companies, increased police state, the rich will lavish in wealth. The only issues you vote for in American politics are social. Big money corrupts both parties. Let Trump rule 4 more years, let him become dictator, at this point it doesn't matter.
The door problem perfectly encapsulates what is wrong with many large systems. No one talks to each other & the onus is put on you to find a solution, even in impossible situations. I had a similar problem when I was getting a disabled wetroom fitted, I managed to convince them to have the door swing inward & promised if I somehow lept from my chair & landed on the floor directly behind the door, I wouldn't sue, I signed a document saying so. All the "regulations" for space between the toilet & sink etc, meant rules & regulations took over from actual usability. All neuaunce & critical thinking has been lost & generic tick boxes have taken their place.
Yeah no the conflicting regulations thing is beyond ludicrous. "Look man, I JUST changed that door for the FDA guy. Here's his freaking number. YOU call him and YOU GUYS figure out which way it's supposed to swing." That part ALONE makes me violently angry at our government and should never be acceptable.
@Oliver Action Even if it just means some schmuck wasn't doing his job in order to squeeze a bogus fine out of someone it STILL means that somebody just isn't doing their job and people are paying for it.
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@@michaellyle859 except that the mcDonald'w coffee was unlawlfully hot, many customers had complained, and the old lady never got anything for it anyway
Firstly, his factory is located in new mexico. Secondly, he doesn't own a bakery, his factory produces 12 million cookies a day. Thirdly, the door regulations he mentioned aren't anywhere in the department of agriculture's regulations since only FDA has jurisdiction over construction compliance so that's a complete fabricated lie. Lastly, according to his own book and on an interview with fox news, he admitted his revenue is upwards of $20 million and a profit margin of at least 30%
@@OfficialSilverMoon Yes, his revenue is high. So let's tax the heck out of him! He doesn't need that much money anyway. He works too hard to make a lot of money because he is a greedy capitalist. We need to make his life miserable until he gives up working and ends up jobless and living off the government just like the rest of us! Signed, your liberal socialist.
I Love President Trump. Jan 30th, 2017 "President Trump signed an order Monday aimed at cutting regulations on businesses, saying that agencies should eliminate at least two regulations for each new one". ! :-)
I’m a diabetic and I love his products! Unfortunately, they’re just too expensive. I don’t buy them. I wish I could. Maybe if the regulators would use some common sense on his company he could price them to where I could afford them.
Bernie: that's it! I'm stepping in! I purpose diabetic cookies for all at no cost to the buyer. Well... at least not when I buy them anyways. *has fake heart attack*
Hahahahah I wish. Products for diabetics don't cost a cent more to make, they're priced more because people tend to pay higher prices for them for a variety of reasons. You're just not wealthy enough to be in that market. It's a common misconception that "businesses want your money" - that's not correct, businesses don't give a shit about _your_ money, they care about _the most money_ they can make for their effort. In the case of products that are less elastic in demand (because you CAN'T buy other cookies if you're diabetic), the most money is made by cutting off people like you from the market because a higher price (within reason obviously), in this case, nets higher profit. Same reason why bread isn't $0.01 to sell to the abjectly poor. You'd expect supposed experts of the free market like PragerU to know this since it's incredibly basic economics (demand-supply, elasticity), but nope, blame the government for it. Note: if you're diabetic, there's a decent chance that you'd be dead already without government regulation on how sugar-heavy foods are labeled.
People hear about the benefits of compounding interest in reference to their banking and how amazing it is to see money grow with compounding interest. What people do not hear is the tyranny of compounding Bureaucracy. Government agencies get a minimum of 4% growth yearly regardless of the need for expansion. To justify this money, they have to constantly create new rules and regulations to justify the increased budget and workforce. This is why a good idea like OSHA or the EPA evolve into business killing monstrosities over time. Once the original need has been met, they continue creating new and unneeded regulations to continue their jobs and agencies growth. People would be amazed at just how much over-regulation costs us daily.
@@wordwan That is where Trump could really rock the system if he had a Congress who would back him up. The way to balance the budget is to freeze spending at current levels and give bonuses on departments that did not spend the entire budget. If you gave a 10% bonus of dollars saved, it would be amazing how much waste would disappear and overnight.
@@grantflippin7808 Of course, it is too much trouble for an OSHA worker to spend the 2 seconds that it would take to explain this to a small business owner!!
@@godskook He didn't say profit, he said profit margin. The business owner himself said (multiple times) that he receives a profit margin of 1% OVERALL, wherein 1 million cookies sold = $10,000 profit. More cookies sold = more profit, but the margin stays the same (in this case). If the cookies' marginal portion of profits was a big enough factor to affect overall margin in the manner you suggest, the business owner would have mentioned it at some point. From the presentation, we can only conclude that his simplified math is sufficiently explanatory of his actual profit margin.
Yeah, I looked around too - even at netrition.com (where he sold them, at a pretty decent price, but it says they were discontinued by the manufacturer). Looks like he's out of the cookie selling business right now. (And yes, it's hard to be profitable, particularly with low-carb ones, which is why you see how crazy expensive some of the diet foods are...)
not only that the type of people that gravitate to that job are the kind of people with 'Napoleon Complex' they are the type of people who absolutely LOVE showing that they have power over you and go out of their way to prove it at times. not just inspectors either, many bureaucrats are like that. ua-cam.com/video/xxmXeLEcs9s/v-deo.html (^that is where he starts talking about bureaucrats but honestly that whole video is worth watching)
My first day on the job was met with the local public health inspector who threatened to close the store down that instance if I continued to stay clocked in for not having the right health card. I was like seriously why couldn't I be assigned non food related tasks? I clocked out and the store still got a demerit 🤷🏽♂️. They are tyrants.
"Entrepreneurs: the only people who work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week." -Lori Greiner, Shark Tank This dude works 100 hours a week and loves his job. My man!
If this man works 100 hours a week and sleeps 8 hours a day, he has less than 2 hours per day left for Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, brushing teeth, getting dressed and undressed and doing his household
When you love what you do, you don’t consider it work. At his level, you HAVE to be good at time management and knowing how to prioritize, or else you’ll be floundering.
A video like this back when I was in high school would have been using in a PowerPoint project for gov class now days in schools a video like this would get the teacher kicked out of a job.
@@DorianTMChannel He is a rare breed, I was forced to take citizenship, social studies and alike classes every semester (University regulation) when doing my second major in north America (Electronics engineering, after my math major), and all the non STEM teachers were leftists, only reason i never failed a class was because as an engineering student I was a few hundred IQ points ahead of most of my classmates and it showed on my essays. A social studies professor once gave me a bad grade on an essay about social inequality (I quoted Margaret Thatcher and he could not forgive me) and blamed my lack of argumentative English skills (I am German) so i took my essay and an essay of a native English speaker to an English teacher and asked which was written by a native and which by a foreigner, he said mine was the native one and after I pointed out which was which he helped me counter the failing grade back to a pass (Since the worse essay had a pass).
This video is very inaccurate and misleading this man owns a international business that makes 12 MILLION cookies a day this man is a multimillionaire and does not work 100 hours a week.
I myself am starting my own business and some of the regulations don't even make sense. I have to own the physical location of my business, before I can even get an interview for one of my licenses! It's feasible but a headache all at the same time. Then I have to wait up to 60 days, before I get the okay from the government to sell my product. Meanwhile, I am going to have to buy low priced products, in order to raise the price to pay for my lights, heating, air, and water utilities. Before I can do that, I have to get a different license from the county my shop is located. I get the first license is necessary, but what about the second license? I can get around it by not hiring employees, then I'm not required to have the license. How is one person to do it all? Well, here's to the power of all thing possible through Christ. Prayers please. God bless America, but hopefully this BIG government will shrink. A lot of unneeded government employees if you ask me.
Dan Dawson that seems like a headache. But people need to stop saying “I understand this regulation, but not THIS one”. That right there. You just validated the role of government in your business. And if you validate their existence, then you can’t be surprised when they try and take more control. It’s proven in every single country everywhere. Check out Dave Smith or Tom Woods for better clarity on government hehe
@@bradvincent2586 touché, but I understand how it is necessary for me to run background checks on the people purchasing from my business. So, jumping through hoops with the ATF is necessary. Government involvement seems necessary there, but paying more money to my county, in order to sell goods, seems overkill. I mean shouldn't the outrageous property taxes be enough? On top of that, the IRS makes me jump through hoops on the tax side. It's just ridiculous. Remember how easy it was to have a lemonade stand in the 80's? 😂🤣
@@bradvincent2586 my biggest issue, is having a government tell me how to sell firearms, when these ignorant politicians don't even know the difference between a round and a bullet. 🤮
Brad Vincent I believe some regulations are good. I don't want to have to sift through my food that's been served to me, looking for cockroaches that got cooked along with the food like in Singapore. The kitchen at least should be in good working order and clean. The FDA originally was formed to protect the customers from fraud and poison, for example, to make sure that sugar sold as sugar was actually sugar and not sand. They're not doing their job properly these days though; corn syrup from China can be packaged and sold as "organic honey" from Brazil. Government has gotten so heavy with corruption that the majority of its regulations that they foist upon people is basically to discourage people from creating new businesses. Big corporations and godless, greedy government officials are to be thanked for that. Big wealthy corporations have big wealthy lobbyists. Kids can't even sell lemonade anymore because a$$holes in government created a requirement that the kid must own a prohibitively expensive license, ostensibly for "safety reasons".
Yo dawg, we heard that you DESPISE regulations, so in order to make your life a living hell on Earth, we've put local regulations into in the state regulations so your federal regulations have regulations in the regulations that go against each regulation so your regulations have anti-regulations that regulate the regulations in these regulations.
No and yes. "If Men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary." -James Madison "Even if all boardrooms and executive offices were cleared out and filled with archangels, at the end of the day they would still have to think about profits." -F.A. Hayek "A business exists for two main reasons or has two main goals; 1) serve the customer. 2) Produce profits." -Orrin Woodward
@@moonlightbuterfly it would depend on the exact wording of both policies. If it's essentially "if you have a hinge door it must open this way" then a sliding door would work. If it's "your door must open into (or out of) the kitchen area" on either policy then not so much.
Our founding fathers would indeed be rolling in their graves from a lot of things. Whether it be rampant corporatism. The military industrial complex and for some of them, that slavery is illegal. Overall thought the founding father's weren't anarcho-capitalists really. Though they lived in a time of vast inequality and horrible conditions in a lot of ways, with child labor, diseases and many regulations needing to be done. I think business wise? They'd certainly think today looks a lot better and safer and depending on which ones you talk to, you'd either find people calling for more regulation in some ways or lesser regulation. Some would even call for more centralization of government. The founding fathers are a divided group and really aren't people to look up to noir can their political affilation in modern terms really be easily guessed at.
Coconut Cookie: "Hello. I am a Coconut Cookie." Inspector: "Um, it doesn't have a food allergy warning for coconuts." Coconut Cookie: "Yes, because I'm a Coconut Cookie. It's common se-" Inspector: "Scrap the packaging!" If you eat *coconut cookies* with a *coconut allergy* I think you should be denied any medical treatment. No EpiPen, no doctors. We need less people wasting our oxygen.
There's some stupid people in the world, dude. Here I think the company dodged a potential lawsuit from an angry customer. Even if the business were to win that lawsuit, the costs of it would probably be more than the cost he had to pay to redo the packaging.
@Chad K Are you serious? He had to waste $15,000 for new packaging because he needed to say the *coconut cookies* have *coconut* in them. It's common sense. It's like putting a disclaimer that an orange juice smoothie has orange juice in it.
it really is. $30k to $40k up front. 6% gross sales annually...$60k on $1 million revenue. plus in mcdonalds case, mcdonalds owns the property so you pay rent to mcdonalds, also you buy the furnature and fixtures from mcdonalds and you buy the food from mcdonalds. Mcdonalds decides in 10 years time for a remodel to update the brand.... you buy more from mcdonalds! and the franchise owner is responsible for any employee issues....injuries, sexual harassment claims, etc. mcdonalds has no liability.
At the hospital where I work we keep having issues because we can't get door handles that meet both state mental health code and ADA code at the same time. We have no idea what door handles to keep on the doors anymore.
As a Locksmith, I see this all the time...... It is good for my business. It is still very frustrating, I always try to keep my customers in the right....
I hear you loud and clear I too own a small business, although not dealing with good, it's a gift shop. But I also work 90 hours a week for minimal pay, just in the last 3 years. Been open 11 years. Still have a TON of regulationsions and inspections, and compliance. Add to that, the monster Amazon. I did not start for the money, but each month has become more difficult. I had to let go all employees, for the business could not handle the health insurance costs. So now it's just me. I'm 63 and don't know how long I can do this. I love what I do, and it's a hard decision to make. So please, don't give up and make your cookies!
I ate peanut butter, and almost died because in the allergy info didn't have peanuts in the section for the peanut butter. How was I supposed to know that their is peanuts in the peanut butter? [This is Joke]
Warren Mitchum the labelling needs to be uniform though. In this instance yeah it is silly but the system simplifies it so people can’t eat one and sue the shit out of the company. These allergens are probably listed elsewhere so the system needs to be objective to stop it from failing.
Gmo products for the win! Like the beyond meat burger, peanuts that are an entirely different product not meant for human consumption but the FDA allows it anyways because the ingredients follow proper procedure lol You gotta question everything these days. Things that say they *may* contain something raises a red flag imo
I wanna go work for a lab that "tests" all these cookies... "What do you do for a living?" "I work at a lab where all i do is eat...i mean test cookies"
I work in State Government as an IT Professional. We have to comply with many different federal regulations. The problem with many of these regulations is that not only that they tend to contradict each other like Mr. Semprevivo points out, but in the IT world they are bout 5 - 10 years out of date. Technology changes about every quarter in the IT world, and they do not keep up with these changes. Even if we have something that is FAR superior to what is in their regulation, we still are written up. The problem with Big Government is that they CANNOT do the job as efficiently or effectively as the private sector.
My dad ran an auto garage, originally started by my grandfather in 1944. All the regulation, all the permits (that's a whole another scam) ... the fees, etc., my dad closed the business after 60 years. THANK YOU BIG GOVERNMENT!
Sorry to read that. Most people become libertarians by one of two reasons: by inspiration and by desperation. I have seen on eyes of my parents the claws in my small country with big government. The more is big, more is corruption. Changing laws, over night. Bribes...what to say.
@@MrAceman82 I'm from a small town in the south of Argentina, we got a giant block filled to the top with government employees, the city hall. The running joke is "There's more people in there than out here". You can arrive at any time and no one will be working in that building. Meanwhile my dad closed the pharmacy he used to own because no matter what he did he couldn't make any profit, the taxes felt like a hurricane, they took everything away.
Do you guys realize that less government means more freedom for a small minority of people, and LESS freedom for the rest of the people? Are you actually aware of that?
@@Simboiss From my experience, the bigger is the government, the bigger is corruption. I saw this at first hand. I think all others in this thread saw that. I am not against government, that is necessary: Army, Police and Justice Courts. Anything above that is thief on hard earned money from tax payers. The politicians should have limited power, especially in economy. The less power they have, the less corruption will be, and less mess will be. The best way to destroy competition is by heavy regulations. I would like to read your explanation, how is less government means less freedom for the rest of the people. If you believe the government is saint, think again.
You trace a very arbitrary line between what the state should do and shouldn't. I trace another line, farther than yours. Why do you think your line is better? If the government is corrupted, then the businesses are too. It takes two to tango. My explanation is that, if you remove the government's influence, businesses can do what they want even more, so it means the rich get a free pass even more. Rich minority, poor majority. Competition is a waste of time, energy and ressources. Having businesses that create products the way the clients want without profit is more efficient. No need for promotions and ads. No stupid decisions over what is profitable, and no parasites that decide their own salaries without doing any work.
We've had a similar experience. Our company sells software to city governments all over the country. Many of these governments require us to file for local business licenses, alter our insurance policies to include them as a beneficiary, meet local hiring practice and minimum wage requirements, etc. in order for them to process payments to us even though we don't have a business presence in their city. Many states also require us to file state income tax returns and sales tax returns even though our business doesn't have a business location or employees there. The result is that we are forced to file many tax returns nationally even though we are a company with less than 10 employees. We estimate that we spend approximately 40 percent non-engineering staff time just filing paperwork instead of using that resource to do marketing or sales. The problem is that the amount of paperwork is the same whether you are a large or small company. Allocating a couple of hundred man hours per month to do the paperwork isn't much if you are a large company of 1,000+ employees but it can be a company killer if you have less than 10 employees.
it sounds like your biting off more than you can chew, 10 employees and your selling to the entire country? maybe focus on local governments and businesses? or hire someone to handle the paperwork so the engineers can have more time to develop the product? sorry if these seem like bad suggestions im not experienced in the business world, I hope your company does well :)
A lot of the paperwork is unnecessary. We have one city that requires that we DON'T offer medical benefits to domestic partners and another city that require that we do. City governments shouldn't really stick their noses into a vendor's policies. As for selling to the entire country, most vendors selling products to city governments have to do this because no single city purchases enough of any given product for you to run a business. That's why you have to sell to many cities. For example, suppose you were in the the business of supplying traffic ticket pads to police departments. There's no way you can sell enough traffic ticket pads to one city to run a company so you have to sell to the entire country's police departments in order to have enough revenue to run a small business. It was a reasonable suggestion that you made but for many products, there isn't enough revenue at one city to support a business.
@Tucson Jim Illegals taking American jobs would destroy the economy though. Hiring illegals is a very selfish way to get rich and I'm pretty sure it's also illegal.
@@Mythhammer Big successful companies, because there's no more competition. For all we know, they're probably paying the Government to push more regulations!
@@t3ddyb34r5 bulls eye! If Dems are known only for spending money, how is it they're billionaires? Is some other source funding them? What role could they possibly play that is in some way connected to government regulation? If you've been hearing the news and other UA-cam sources separate from msm, you'll get the answers from that plus much more. Corruption lies deep
The door and packaging issues hurt to hear. The type one was especially infuriating. How the hell can you tell what a hundreth of an inch is, and further pursue and punish them for it?
You can't. 1/64th an inch is approximately the thickness of two pieces of masking tape. Unless the inspector was using micrometers there's no way they can tell it's that far off.
@@michaelsorensen7567 You're probably right that it wasn't exactly 1/100 inches, but it's still not past regulators to harp on such small infractions. My dad owns a restaurant of his own, and some regulators really are this bad for him too. It's asinine.
Now multiply the government "help", hours spent on compliance issues and fines costs by 10x, add the high probability of your store get robbed by thiefs in the equation and there you have Brazil's conditions to open a business
That's why the right to bare arms is important. Sooner or later when the government takes soo much food out of your mouth you get to feed them something to..lead.
This reminds of me of some overregulation combined with industries gaming customers via the regulations, as in my case: I recently had a small outbuilding built behind my house, with just a toilet and sink as far as plumbing is concerned. It's a non-living space. To save some money, my dad and I did the plumbing ourselves. My dad is extremely knowledgeable about plumbing and has lots of experience... in his state, and not my state. The inspector came out and said it wasn't to code, and if I didn't fix it soon, the fine would be $1,000. My dad had driven an hour-and-a-half to come help me the first time, which took us several hours, and he had too much on his plate to come back and help me fix our mistakes. I didn't have the time to figure it out on my own, so I hired a plumber. The plumber's price for less than an hour's labor after I had already done all the digging and positioning? $1,000! I wonder where they came up with that price.
We tried to sever a house from farmland I wanted to keep in Ontario. The govt demanded an expensive survey. Done. Then another, and another. I finally gathered that the regional govt worked w/ the approved surveying firm.
@Black shuck Small businesses pay such a small percentage of government graft costs, they are hardly worth it. Some small business owners wouldn't even know HOW to bribe their government agents. Meanwhile, big industry lobby groups pay millions directly into the pockets of our government parasites.
This video is exactly why: 1. Prager U is lying. Again. ua-cam.com/video/UpyBct6P-ZA/v-deo.html 2. Pisschuggers like you speak in bumper sticker slogans like "big government sucks."
America didnt rebel because of the taxes they rebelled because they weren't getting any recognition in their area they didny want to be bossed around from someone on the other side of the world
We fought the British Empire because of overtaxation, poor representation or nonexistent representation in parliament, and used like a resource colony with no regard to the inhabitants. Fast forward 250 years and the US became the very thing it fought. It moved taxes. Laws and regulations are disjointed with little regard to the people they affect. Politicians are too busy starting and fighting wars to care about citizens, only showing a shred of interest during election seasons.
@@principleshipcoleoid8095 Why would they do that? Their job is to lobby the interests of big business - and the one way is creating contradicting rules that your average Joe cannot accomplish thus making him always guilty. There's even an example in the video.
@Oliver Action Making millions doesn't mean millions of profits. A 1% profit margin means that he would need to sell 100 milion $ in cookies to make a million in profits. Yes, he makes millions, but 99% of them goes to paying the workers, buying the necessary material and ingredients to keep the business going and meitenance.
Wow. Once again, the Randomness of UA-cam saves me. I literally just left a comment about Regulatory Capture (which fits the problem described in this video) and some idiot left a comment on my post, saying "if a small business can't compete, they must have inferior product," or some other such garbage. I'm going to link this video.
@@QuippersUnited Many of the videos are sound. Ironically, I don't often agree with Dennis Prager himself when he makes videos. But you can't just blow off an argument or position you never hear. But I don't argue against guys like that on the internet to change their minds. I do it because someone reading the thread might be persuaded
We got taxes for taxes for taxes. If we had the same taxes under Great Britian then today U.S. we be living a lot better. We are taxed 41% more then what we had under Great Britian. We need to really do something about the tax problem.
Uh...no it doesn't need to be cut by 90% that is far far FAR too much, the oligarchs need to be regulated the issue is that they are making legal bribes called donations to screw everyone else over. The other koch brother whos still alive should be in prison.
@@morphor Wow, you need to get educated on how this all works my friend. You truly don't know much about how this all works based on your understanding here.
@@DarthBalsamic i know enough, i know it needs to arguably be cut, but im sorry i believe in a balance between. Socialist and capitalist programs (bernie sanders or bust). My political beliefs stem from the economic crash/ great recession of 2008 and we are headed for inevitably another one thanks to the same oligarchs who screw us over again and again and again. The great depression gave rise to fdr arguably the greatest president we ever had who stood up to the oligarchs of the time and built our infrustructure. Because of him we didnt have another crash for 50 years until some of the regulations he put in were removed because of the oligarchs who seriously have a money issue aka too much...trickle down has and will never work as people who make that much are almost always too greedy amd will make everyone else suffer in the process. Theres a reason why the french revolution happened.
Slippery Bill I watched the video, all I can say is that I do actually feel more better knowing that he did all that with a government who doesn't give a shit about him.
Oliver Action if you want a ” big deal government ” this video is clearly not for you. The whole point is to make the people free as possible, without a big government. And yes, when you're government is more interested in making the small company fail instead of succed is nothing to cry about, it's already a tragedy. I'm from a country where in the last 20 years social Democrats are still in power and even if we had a revolution still is no sign that we gonna get rid of them.
Being in law enforcement I can truly understand and appreciate the frustration that you go through. It angers me to hear the hoops you have to go through to make things work. Thanks for telling your story.
***warning: comment may be a trigger for some*** I've had my fair share of bureaucratic B.S. in just owning a home. my local government's code enforcement makes the city upwards of $350,000 a year in "code violations". these violations range from a trash can being "too full", your grass being too tall (above 8" in my city), or even your siding on your house being too old and getting you evicted and your house condemned. I had my run in with these individuals on several occasions, as my house was built in 1924. has an asbestos tar tile, and lead paint (I know it's lead paint cause it wipes off onto your hand if you lean on it.). The Code Enforcers would come by 2-3 times a week and put signs in my yard about chipped paint, grass too tall, a boat that hadn't moved in 3 weeks (this was winter when this one came in), and so on... At one point I was looking at $1500 in fines in just one month. that's when I had enough and started looking up these "codes". And you know what, I learned the agency itself was a violation In my city, there is a local law prohibiting any 3rd party company presenting itself as local government. There is also laws against excessive surveillance of a property. As too there is a law prohibiting any local code/law enforcement agency from hiring/using employees without PLE (police & law enforcement) training. And finally, since these rules/laws were written in the pre-internet era, "Any city code that is to be enforced must be available in print". the city put this rule in place so that the local printing companies could make money off the taxes (the mayor at that time owned the printing company). So I refused the fines, I went to court, and presented the following. The company that were driving city vehicles and writing violations were from an agency 2 hours away, that they could have noted the month's worth of violations as one or waited til the next month to cite me as nothing had changed, none of the people of the enforcement agency had their ple certificates, and that if they wished to continue writing me fines, I needed a physical book of the codes, and new updated pages every time they change something (every Tuesday). It's been 5 years and I haven't heard from them since.
It's the same issue in income property. As a landlord it infuriates me when people (especially the younger generation) go on and on about rent prices and how high they are; quit talking to me and go talk to the government. We're not arbitrarily setting you rent prices all willy nilly, the government has their hand so far in my pocket with taxes and regulations, the prices are what they are to make the business work, and just barely at that. And now these genZ are begging the government for a "green tax" to "save the planet" : these kids have no idea that in 10 years time rent is probably going to be more than double, even if it's a 15% "green" business tax. See with a 15% tax the electric company charges me more, the gas company charges me more, the water company charges me more, all building and maintenance costs go up because the hardware stores charge me more, and I have to pay an additional tax. All this cost I'm not paying: YOU ARE, the renter. I have to increase YOUR rent to cover it. Basically the government is responsible for your ridiculously high cookie and rent costs and if you have a bone to pick about it talk to the government, NOT the business owner.
If only these idiots lobbied for lowered cost instead of free stuff, their situation would have been better. Lower costs and burdens for all benefits society and improves efficiency.
I see way more slum lords gouging for money they spend on drugs and whatever than I see honest renters trying to treat tenants fairly in the name of a modest lifestyle. Slumlords around here will screw you ten ways sideways on a Friday then be in jail by Monday for dangerous drugs they spent your hard earned money on.
And then they complain that their minimum wage job isn't a living wage, we've gotta raise the minimum wage so that we can live on our fast food jobs because oh no rent is so expensive and food is so expensive and my phone bill is so expensive... It sickens me that all this crap comes from people only a few years older than me who have no maturity. But then, every generation does this dumb crap, don't they? Guess we've just gotta wait for people to grow the hell up already and start taking responsibility for themselves. Might be a very long wait for a lot of them...
The funny thing is supposed to be a free country yet it's so much rules nothing just for business but in general... what becoming China with rules and rules and regulations not to mention surveillance...
@@darnit1944 It has, but they are upheld whenever party bureaucrats want to. The level of corruption in China is unimaginable for an average American. As long as you kiss the ass of a local party leader, or higher than that, you are not bothered. China rarely shoots itself in the foot. The rules they make are for their enemies to respect, not for their allies as well. Business regulations in China are a joke and they are enforced only for foreign companies. And even among the foreign companies, not all of them have to respect them. It all depends how well acquainted those foreign companies are with the Chinese leadership and how well they get along. For example, German companies have a very good relation with the Chinese government today. The US companies not so much due to the trade war.
@@darnit1944 now they have business as well just like America but tacky and cheap and the government controls everything but they have so much rules that just like hell except the one thing they watch everybody and I do mean everybody that is coming
@@Kalimdor199Menegroth Oh yeah, i forgot. You must also be a Communist party member to expand your business in China. They can bribe environment inspectors to give them a pass on polluting factories.
Why the heck is his profit margin so low in the first place? Either he is selling his cookies for WAY too cheap, or his cookies cost way too much to make. I'm all for getting rid of pointless regulations (though the idea that less regulations are always better is not true), but it seems like they are exaggerating things to make the regulation situation seem more dire for small business owners. Wait a sec, one google search on this guy reveals that he's far from a "small business owner". The guy is a millionaire! Seriously, the video frames it like this is a small business owner currently struggling to survive, but even back in 2013 he wrote a book on how he went from rags to riches. Heck, forget the profit margins! Even if this guy really is only earning $10,000 for every 1 million cookies he bakes, he's baking 12 million cookies a day! That's a profit of $120,000 PER DAY. Most people don't make that much in a year! Geez, with that many sales, of course he's able to bring those margins so low! Who cares about losing tens of thousands of dollars a year in cookie samples when you make back that much in a single day? Anyway, I would appreciate some citations, maybe showing the conflicting laws for doors, as well as the other regulations discussed? This is why I hate PragerU. Even when they are saying stuff I AGREE with, they lie and distort the truth without even providing citations, just assuming people will eat it all up without even a simple google search. Honestly this is making me think that these regulations should stay, because if PragerU can't even make an argument against excessive regulations without lying it's way through, then that tells me that there isn't a good argument to be made in the first place. Then again, maybe PragerU is so used to lying at this point that they can't help it. Btw, it's kind of ironic how the description claims this story is about how the government "too often hinders much more than it helps" when 90% of the news stories on this guy are about how government tax savings allowed his business to thrive. lol!
Large corporations love regulations as they have the resources and man power to soak up the costs. This forces small businesses out of the market and creates a monopoly. The government then complains about the monopoly they created and demands more power to fix it.
Exactly, large companies actually lobby in favor of more and more regulation because they know it will cut the legs out from under any potential competition. People use this as an example of how the free market doesn't work, but in reality its a perfect example of how government interfering with the market doesn't work.
I bought a bottle of Melitonin to help me get to sleep. It has a warning on the back that the product may cause drowsiness. Imagine my shock when I read that! Who would have thought?
I just saw something in my local paper about how Obama created more jobs in his last months of office than Trump created in his first months of office. Of course! Because Obama used the people's money to artificially create government jobs. Trump creates his jobs in the private sector, aka the right way.
@@austinkamp8048 conveniently omitting the fact that the first few months of trump's term were largely influenced by the residue and legacy of Obama's term...
It's also amusing how the same politicians that shame good business people for increasing the amount of money they earn through work are the same politicians who demand we pay them more every year and increase what is relatably the government's profit margins. Of course, we'll also ignore the fact that many of these same people are also million and billionaires in their own right.
@V 4 Vendetta This. Exactly my point. I would also like to point out that "liberals" and "progressives" today are such people in name mostly (if not only).
This guy is a millionaire who made that money having a very succesful factory of prepackaged cookies, of which he sells 3.6 million packages a year, which recently expanded to also start producing honey. He admittedly does do this with few employees at only 12 (not 7, taking the public records I can find about his company here rather then his claim), but this really isn't the face of your average small business in quite a few ways. The problem isn't that there is a lot of laws, it's that laws in the US are stacked up awkwardly on top of eachother often with different systems for the same problems and due to the way laws are stacked on old laws; and how the regulations for different agencies in the same area aren't properly matched to eachother. It's a flaw in the US political system that makes this almost completely impossible to fix, and very easy to occur. - The problem isn't necessarily big or small government. Even with little regulation, regulations would still stack up awkwardly and poorly the same way. I'm not sure what the fix to this one is, most other countries with similar levels of regulation especially around food safety really don't have this issue. If I'd start this place in the EU, despite being subject to pretty much the same level restrictions and safety measures, I'd only have to spend a few hours of that work week on compliance with the exception of when updates have to happen or the law changes for a short while (at those times there'd be a temporary peak). The way the EU and most if it's member countries can do this is because they link the agencies in related fields under one bigger umbrella as well that oversees for conflicts like these, There may be a solution there for the US. This guys problem isn't regulation itself, it's how it's implemented, which is the same under Republicans and Democrats in the end due to the above problem. What is different between the two? This guy gets a bunch of tax cuts when people vote Republican. - That's the difference. I am not saying that is definately his motivation behind this video, but it's certainly convenient. *tl;dr PragerU uses millionaire small business owner to mislead people about the reason the problems this business faces in regulation exist.*
@The Absolute Madman No, the effect and consequences would not be greatly diminished: The thing that makes this so hard in the US is the amount of different and unrelated laws you have to know in relation to a subject that are often not clearly set up in an easily usable system. Though you might save a tiny sliver of time with the laws containing less information individually due to them being "smaller" it wouldn't do that much. It wouldn't do nothing: Let me be clear, I am not saying that but it isn't actually that helpful. You could theoretically strip the laws so far that you'd avoid the problem too: But in that case you've not fixed the actual problem and will be starting to compromise on the integrity of the tax system (which like it or not: And regardless of how big you'd like it: is needed) and food/worker safety laws. What PragerU is doing here can be summarised like this: It's like trying to solve a water leak in a tub by draining the tub instead of fixing the leak and then blaming the water: While funnily enough the person making that argument would benefit greatly form a lower water level, but the rest of society gets the short end of the stick. The actual problem here is the complexity of the law, not necessarily how big or small the law is: That is a completely different ideological question and these are two questions are knowingly equated as the same here and at whose benefit exactly?
What really bothers me about all these regulations is that very almost none of them protect businesses from malignant consumers. Where's the Government when the corner store is getting robbed for the second time in a year? Where's the rule of law when locals loot and riot? Where are the special protections for producers and distributors? I'm convinced that most people in government could care less about decent people, as long as they stay in office.
I mean if I had allergies to coconuts and the warning wasn't on the package I would think they would be substitute coconut cookies with no real coconut. Only to suffer and have an investigator literally show the bag with a missing warning only to sue the cookie business and take the money. Sometimes these regulations prevent people from suing businesses into bankruptcy. JUST A THOUGHT!
@@crowmaster9652 Or maybe people should read the ingredient list that comes right before the allergy warning and actually care about their own health instead of being lazy, money hungry, and eager to sue people for a quick buck because they don't care about vigilance.
@@lilchristuten7568 chivalry is dead buddy, byzantine empire is over. Also boohoo to the guy who gets sued for a misprint on their own food. You liberals need to wake up and get a grip.
@@crowmaster9652 This has nothing to do with chivalry (and no it is not dead) it's about being a decent human being who has enough diligence to care about their own health enough to see if the ingredients on prepackaged food have anything they are allergic to in it, instead of just assuming that it has substitutes. He wouldn't get sued for a misprint he would get sued for not having an allergy warning for a product with the allergen in the name of the product and clearly listed in the ingredients.
After working 100 hours a week and then get told I need to waste time adjusting my door so it swings in the opposite direction, I think I would have lost my mind and started screaming in a fit if a 2nd health inspector walks into my business and it needs to go back the other way
What I might've done in that situation is send a copy of both inspectors' reports to the opposite inspector and have them battle it out with each other.
@@hatchettwit According to a recent survey, a company like the one of the video has between 60 and 102 taxes to pay. The proportion of the sum of taxes can easily climb over 65% of total income. Regarding controls, I really don't know if there is some seriuos study that can enumerate them. What entrepreneurs do, is to open their business, and let the inspectors come with their laws and fines
Absolutely appalling. We must Fargo all the regulations, and respect only law passed by a legislature which respects the inalienable natural law rights of the People.
Only the legislature is supposed to have legislative powers under the constitution. And anything not listed in the constitution is a states issue. We go back to that, we free up a lot of people's money and time.
Completely agree on the extra costs I get charged for. Have a fire inspector come by my office costs me $750. He literally walked thru with the firemen and said that I had to put label on back door that says high voltage even though everything in that room was on a regular 220 breaker. He also wrote up a ceiling tile I had moved. He was going to have to come back to inspect that. Also had to install an emergency lockbox outside so they could access office without breaking glass. I understand that last request. So after paying to install Knox box, paying for mounting thru brick wall, adding high voltage sticker on back door even though it clearly is not high voltage I paid out another $1600. I put the tile back for free. So $2450 for a mounted lock box, a sticker and moving a ceiling tile. Plenty of other stuff that cost me stupid amount of money like having handicap ramp put in even though the office is not open to the public. Due to regulations it was required. 2 years later it never was used. It did cost me almost 4K for them to dig up sidewalk to install ramp and railing. Lots of other stupid shit going on too.
gilbmj aww yeah, took the bait. How about the fact that he lies about the number of employees he has. Or how “each batch” of cookies per day is more than 100,000 cookies, so yeah, need to make sure he isn’t putting saw dust in there. It’s his designers fault for not knowing packaging law, not the governments. He’s just a shitty capitalist who lies to make those below his class fight each other while we get poorer.
I love you PragerU you have made me mature and pay attention to the world around me instead of living my life never looking outside of my little box and never exploring outside of my loved ones beliefs.
When you think about it, government is a "socialist" unit embedded within a capitalist system. You don't get to choose your government, really. You choose who's in it, but that doesn't make a lot of difference, especially as far as the established bureaucracies are concerned. They are a monopoly force -- you don't get to choose a different bureaucracy to comply with, a different bureaucracy to pay taxes to. It's a zero competition game providing the worst customer service at the highest cost run by low effort, low intelligence employees that can't be fired no matter how incompetent they are and whose bad performance doesn't cost the bureaucracy business. Because you have no other choice. Government is itself socialistic.
It is a big club that looks out for its own, and you ain't in it, what is more it is the same club they use to beat you over the head with if you do not comply.
My dad owns his own small business. I can attest that his employees are like family. Just putting this here in case anyone thought it was an exaggeration.
So it just occured to me, part of the issue is that you need the door to swing both ways IF you are lugging heavy equipment through the door in both directions on a regular basis. I work at a Chickfila, they have a big poster in the back of FDA and OSHA stuff, it's a fun read. The door between the front and the back of the store swings both ways, so people who are bringing heavy boxes of sauces/buckets of lemonade or iced tea/mop stuff to the front and those taking a lot of empty boxes/heavy trash bags/mop stuff to the back are all safe. GRANTED, we're talking about one of the three largest fast food chains in the COUNTRY, and my particular franchise in that chain owns one of the top TEN Chickfila's in the country. I think also, that when you're talking about employee safety for our situation, you need that double swingy door. But it's unfair to use those regulations in an unfair squashing of small business, especially if it's not necessary, just excessive. I'd be interested to know what this guy's situation is so far as lugging heavy stuff through the doors. Overall though, I'm more inclined to be on his side. The FDA and the OSHA is just ridiculous sometimes.
But how else are we going to pay for everyone to have a government job? And how re we going to house, clothe, and feed the entire world's population now that we do that sort of thing?
@@aps-c1766 the rich will just shut down their business if you do so. There's no reason to work more to be taxed even more, in addition, the rich knows very well how to avoid taxes, so high taxes only hurt the poor and middle class.
I do residential real estate investment, have been for 13 years now, and it was made clear to me early on by people who invest all around the country, to AVOID buying property and investing in California at ALL costs.
well i guess he not the heart of the economy. his company has a quote "international presence"-wikipedia, and makes 12 million cookies a day hes a multimillionaire
Most of the FDA's regulations wouldn't concern you. The only reason he has to follow them is because his factory makes 12 million cookies a day, he's not a small business owner en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Semprevivo
This guy isn't a small business owner. He works on an international scale with a factory making millions of cookies a day. He is worth millions of dollars, he is not your friend.
@@SepticFuddyhe has interests opposite to yours. While you want to give your children a good education without huge debts, get affordable healthcare and get a good salary in general, this guy wants to promote tax cuts, so that he doesn't have to pay for such 'useless' things like public education and healthcare. He wants to maximize his profits at the cost of common man
"It's hard to imagine a more stupid or dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong"
Thomas Sowell
Fluffybrute Nah mate you’re the one who’s wrong. CEOs and business owners can lose millions of dollars when they’re wrong. Government officials don’t lose a dime if they screw up.
@@manuforever143 On hard Buisiness related topics i would tend to agree with you, on Employer/Employee related topics i disagree, thats were the employers can milk their employees without sacrifising anything for being wrong, cause they can employ another right away.
@@Julian-we6qg And risk damaging lawsuits and bad PR? No way.
@Fluffybrute bro a CEO is literally getting their income from directing their business in the 'right' direction. If they make a 'wrong' turn they 'pay' immeasurably as it is their business / their company. Of course, their may be some immorality in their practice (some of the time) but if we look at right / wrong simply in financial / economy terms, a 'wrong' move will make them 'pay', hence they can only afford to be 'right' to maintain their top spot - otherwise people realise they are incompetent and will request a turnover of power. Also, hierarchies of competence can only ever function if those at the top are expert. For example, you hope the best neurosurgeon in a hospital has almoust flawless knowledge and ability (high competence), and if he isn't up to scratch he will pay by being demoted.
However, I somewhat agree with you because if we look at the brain dead cheese puff sitting in the White House at the moment, who doesnt understand basic science (that would tell him global warming is infact real and not a myth) he is not paying enough for being wrong, and someone else will have to. Of course there are many other examples of corrupt power too. But the main thing is to not confuse this with the model of capitalism as a whole.
@Fluffybrute You're talking Fortune 500 companies that have had the Fed pass laws to make sure they don't face competition and other scummy practices. We're talking about small businesses here, the lifeblood of America. You make a wrong step on top of a small business and you're done for.
As a small business owner myself, this video was infuriating!
I agree with speaker - some regulation is just common sense. The over regulation is done for the following reasons:
1. To raise revenue.
2. To protect monopolies and existing businesses from up start competition.
3. To justify a bureaucrats fat-cat salary. They come up with new regulations to make it seem like their job is needed - to give the illusion that their job is never done.
Number 3-At my job we call that "salary justification"!
Never even thought about the 2nd one, damn. No offense to you or your, but because of your comment I feel like this is the only actual informative vid from prager u. Since they like to protect those same big businesses/oligarchs, i hate how a lot of conservatives seem to treat politics like a sports game and not actually think that maybe theres a reason they are constantly arguing with liberals.
Government functionaries like to assert authority. Bullies actually. It not about safety anymore.
Read Joel Salatin's book Everything I want to do is illegal.
My favorite youtube video on the subject, California cops and fda thugs go into a organic food store with SWAT team tactics. Guns drawn, looking to shoot what? Unarmed people occupied the store, forced to the ground at gun point. The larger processed food industries thrive in a controled bussiness of regulation. We live in frightening times.
@@jimhill6586 thats actually entirely possible....but i feel like bribes also play a factor
@@morphor I have to disagree, they have a set of values and they stick to them, regardless if the the issue is small business or big. If you want to deregulate small business you must do the same for big business.(by they I mean Prager)
If you would live in the European Union, you would have to deal with at least triple the nonsense. Over here we have whole campus-sized buildings filled with nothing but bureaucrats that have to justify their existence by inventing new ways to torment everyone (especially businesses) every day. The only reason at least the big companies can deal with it rather easily is that the whole system is also insanely corrupt.
and this is how you get people to give up their dreams and work for big companies.
@@ayeapprove 😤😤😤
So I keep hearing. That's just vile.
Yup, same thing in Germany, big business supports big regulation, sure regulations damage them too, but small business get's killed by these regulations, once there is only one company left in an area, they start exploiting people like crazy, if there is only one company you better accept what ever job they offer to you for how ever little money they offer you.
It why we don't have as many global enterprises as the US even with twice the population.
Oh, and one more thing. Thomas Jefferson had it right: "A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have."
quotes.yourdictionary.com/articles/what-is-the-government-big-enough-quote-by-thomas-jefferson.html did he?
He was only right about the last part.
No matter how big a government is, it cannot and will never give anyone everything.
Goddamnit! Guys, your founding fathers were real badasses!
Actually Gerald R. Ford said it. But the quote is still a good one
Facts
One commenter mentioned that big businesses love regulations, and he's entirely correct. They do so because it takes some of their would-be competitors out of the market. How? For the simple reason that a big company is much better able and comfortable complying with such regulations thanks to more ample resources, whereas those same rules would be a lot more burdensome to a smaller one with less capital. So the end result, it discourages people with less capital to start (or expand) their business, and thus compete with the big ones.
Big businesses can also gree$e the wheels more easily too.
And government loves Big Business... It's certainly easier to bring one organization to heel than thousands of smaller ones.
@@sarahb9831 Yeah, and speaking of that, Amazon is at the forefront of the campaign for raising the federal minimum wage to $15. And for the same reason - because it would raise the barrier to entry for would-be entrepreneurs, especially in areas with low costs of living, like someone trying to open or expand some spartan coffee shop in some border town like McAllen, TX.
And that's by the way of the reasons it's crucial to leave such regulations up to localities, states at most. Because cities vary wildly in cost of living across the US, and $15 is worth twice as much in Sebring, FL than in Beverly Hills, CA. So raising it like that would price out a lot of businesses in smaller cities from expansion, as well as price out workers with little to no experience from starting their climb in the economic ladder, typically leading to higher unemployment and a rise in the cost of certain goods and services. Which is why it's best to leave them up to the various cities (and states) that know better their own job market situations and costs of living.
Anyway, what Amazon is doing is one of the reasons I want money to be taken out of politics. Not for the same reasons liberals want it (to rein in business), but for two other reasons:
1) To keep the bigger ones from having rules that favor them at the expense of the smallers ones;
2) I see these kinds of donations as basically politicians extorting businesses for laws they were gonna pass anyway. Republicans should be for less regulations anyway, with or without contributions. They're _supposed to be_ the party of capitalism. And they shouldn't need multimillion-dollar donations to do that. Same for Democrats; they're supposed to be the party of less capitalism (or socialism, or whatever they want to call themselves). And they're gonna try and regulate and tax anyway, with or without contributions.
So these contributions are money wasted on politicians that are best redirected into the market, in R&D, or reinvested in business expansion and job creation. Not to mention the contributions favor the bigger companies that help write the regulations themselves.
@@russellstephan6844 They don't necessarily want to bring to heel; they just want to control it. At least the Democrats do. Because big businesses typically employ a lot of people, so it's not in the interest of a politician - right or left - to be seen as responsible for so many people losing their jobs if he pushed a certain company to failure. That's why Obama bailed out the banks instead of letting them fail - and then regulated the heck out of them with Dodd-Frank (which by the way also ended up hurting the smaller banks way more, until Republicans rolled back some parts of it). And that's why he also bailed out failing GM, which is still failing and selling less and less cars, instead of letting fail and have better, more efficient ones take its place.
Liberals don't hate (big) business; they want to nationalize it, or get as close to that as possible through regulating it to the minutest detail. What they really hate is private ownership and want the government/collective to have a greater and greater say in how companies (and even people for that matter) run affairs, how much money they make, etc. in the same way they want the government to take over healthcare entirely, then oil companies, and so on.
Barrier to entry is a key component to great success, especially if you have overcome the barrier already.
Apparently, the door to government regulations swings both ways.
+1 Badassness to you, mate.
LOL Nice one... Actually, when he was describing that situation I thought "Why not mount a door that swings both ways?" But then I realized - that would be considered a violation by BOTH agencies, rather than a fix. Perfect examples of government out of control...
That is dumb. Its how the government steals money from you.
@@michaelpfister1283 Then build sliding one.
@@naksachaisaejane1982 im sure that would be a violation of both.
Here in the UK my dad was cry laughing at this pack of brazil nuts that said "may contain nuts"
Here in the US, labels on dairy products warn that they contain_milk_. Well yes, I should hope so! 😕
It’s true! I live in brazil and my father runs a market here in Rio, and he gotta have the products (ie: packed nuts, packed chocolate etc.) with the warning “may contain nuts/chocolate” etc. That or he gets fined by these governments agencies
I work for a fresh crab meat, that said its "FRESH CRAB MEAT" we have to put in the nutricional labels thats FRESH CRAB MEAT. i guess americans are too stupid to read labels by themself.
No joke, the label on my milk container warned me that the product contained milk. gez, thanks........
May as in 50-50 chance😆
If you make a mistake you pay thousands of dollars in fines. If the government makes a mistake, you aren't allowed to sue them. And yet we continue to elect politicians instead of tarring and feathering them.
No we still get fined for not paying attention to a dangerous situation and were harmed for it.
Not all politicians are bad
@@thediamondarcher2880 you're right. The good ones get frustrated with all the corruption and graft, and quit after several terms. While the bad ones stay in for 40+ years.
If the government makes a mistake, you still pay thousands or millions of dollars.
@@thediamondarcher2880 all politicians are bad, otherwise they'll be doing something really productive for society.
I remember the impact of poorly thought regulations on my parent's liquor-convenience store. The City of Walnut Creek decided that in case of flooding, local stores might sell spoiled food to people and thus in any store that sold any food items, all stock must be stored on shelves at least 8" off the floor.
1. Such flooding had never happened
2. Our store was on a hill, so my parents told the City if our floor was 8" under water the rest of the City was about 70 feet under water.
3. We didn't sell fresh goods or produce, only things in cans, kegs, bottles and plastic packages.
4. Since local stores are part of the community and wouldn't last long if they sold bad food to people, there's a trust connection with your customers. After being part of the community for so long it would never occur to them to screw their neighbors.
None of that mattered, my parents had to pay $5000 for uneccesary shelves for a non-problem in the face of a non-disaster that would never occur. That's a lot of money for a small business.
Insanity. These regulations. Its almost as if they WANT small businesses to fail!🙄..mmmhmmm.😞
Personally, after I had paid out that money to unneeded shelving, I would walk into the next city council meeting with a Louisville slugger, and either leave with a check for $5000.00 plus expenses, or every council member would never walk again.....and I would still get my money from the trembling city attorney.
But that's just my opinion......
Janesville Wisconsin charges 15K for a class A liquor license, to open a beer store you have to pay 15K to the city
I call it government abuse. The government does whatever it wants, whenever it wants to do it, and you either comply with their stupid demands or initiate a lawsuit that lasts for years and costs you much more than just complying.
@Electro_blob Imposing regulations on small business owners is the only way inefficient mega-corporations can compete.
"Small business' are the backbone of the economy."
- A lot of politicians.
This guy owns an international business and produces 12 million cookies a day. He isn't being honest. He is not to be trusted.
If you bothered to do a 10 second google search on this guy you would have realized that he lied to you about being a small business owner.
Dude isn't a small business owner.
@@cubsfan8293 Did you watch Vaush by any chance?
@@3ball260 Vaush and the Majority Report find the best conservatives to dunk on. 😂
You guys need to join me and tell #coldfeetcrowder to quit being a coward and debate Sam Seder
When they inspect your business, they HAVE to find something wrong or there is no reason to justify their job. Also, you can bet it all that they know how the owner is registered politically. This enables them to alter just how hard the hammer is going to fall on you. Bureaucracy is a blight on a nation.
I never thought about that, but sadly it makes a lot of sense. It's better for those of us who are conservative to live, work, set up businesses, etc. in the regions where we are surrounded by like-minded people.
My thoughts exactly.
"The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy".
@Reid TF Where exactly are you from?
@Reid TF Well, you did get out. Congratulations.
There are zero pieces of paper that indicate if im conservative or liberal.. the governent makes zero decisions about my business based on my political choices. If you're ignorant enough to register yourself as a one party voter, you've only admitted your simple minded ignorance and deserve whatever "mistreatment" you percieve to ensure.
FDA: Door must swing inward.
Department of Agriculture: Door must swing outward.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
And why so much crap is "made in China."
Then why not make an automated door? Maybe we should form a new department combining FDA and DOA
No door for you
why not have the door swing inward and outward?
Alex Hitt
I don’t think doors work like that.
Everybody shut up and let this man make his cookies.
The punchline is he stopped manufacturing cookies in his factory years ago. Now it's just diabetic syrup and book tours.
@@dataportdoll sounds so much simpler...than selling cookies.
He needs to stop eating them!
I want cookies
Firstly, his factory is located in new mexico. Secondly, he doesn't own a bakery, his factory produces 12 million cookies a day. Thirdly, the door regulations he mentioned aren't anywhere in the department of agriculture's regulations since only FDA has jurisdiction over construction compliance so that's a complete fabricated lie. Lastly, according to his own book and on an interview with fox news, he admitted his revenue is upwards of $20 million and a profit margin of at least 30% en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Semprevivo
My first time becoming self-employed was when I dropped my “liberal” description and became a conservative. For those of you who have always been employed by someone else who worked long hours, especially at the beginning, and had to think about all the regulations have no idea what you are talking about when you talk about those evil business owners. We take the risks while you don’t.
Nice strawman argument.
As if Leftist aren't also CEOs and Millionaires.
@@napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676 A lot of them most likely either aren't, or are too rich/to big to be affected considering the fact they are always pushing for more taxes.
@@napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676 go away troll. Your arguments don't fit on this channel. I bet you aren't even a business owner who experienced this yourself. Btw, being a CEO doesnt exactly mean they founded the company they're in charge of. In case you haven't noticed, thousands of CEOs the past couple years have been mysteriously "retiring" or stepping down. In truth, they're getting out before justice hunts them down for corruption. The actions of a few don't represent the voices of everyone.
@@napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676 yes and many say this (my clients) "I am fiscally conservative but socially liberal - so I vote democrat"
@@mikepasatieri502 Yes, because most Democrats are third-way neo-liberals. Capitalists who are virtually indistinguishable from Republicans on most economic issues.
When the government inspector walks in, he's got an offer you can't refuse.
@Damn Yankee And if you don't pay your "protection" money, he'll bust up your kneecaps!
@@SergeantExtreme That's how mafia works
@@alexbarabanov6782 Except Mafia is easier to get along with.
**Tries to push open the door**
**Slams into door**
"Damnit, I forgot that was the FDA door."
Man that made my day
Haha
What if we have an automatic door that opens to the side or upwar when I get close?
This video is a lied. I work as a inspector for Department of Agriculture and there is NO REGULATION on a door needing to swing outwards.
Somebody give that guy a cookie
Bussiness owner: What about a double swinging door?
Bureaucrat: Might wanta check with OSHA first.
J&
Lol
Hes lying about the door thing btw
@@ownerofastolengun evidence?
@@TheNaikas he lied about being a small business,hes a factory owner,stands to reason everything said from that point is untrustworthy as most Prague u vids are misleading and disingenuous anyways
So, in 5 minutes I've just heard a very convincing and through argument for why there is too much regulation. I wonder if I sat the FDA down if they could give me as convincing and through an argument for why the door needs to swing a different way and why its a good thing to have two departments with conflicting standards in five minutes?
LOL. Don't get your hopes up.
They can't, they only pass stupid legislation so they can justify their wages. Its a disgusting waste of money
I'm not with the FDA, but I can give you a convincing argument and thorough argument for why it's good to have two departments with conflicting standards. Because if there are two departments, then each can point at the other and say that other department is at fault and thus making sure you can't be right by the law no matter what you do. And by making sure you are always in some way non-compliant, your federal government can create grounds to justify their abuse of you, making you a criminal and preventing you from finding any justice in the courts. The only ones not subject to this scrutiny and above extortion are already the ones making and upholding the laws. So it is good... if you are a politician or bureaucrat, y'know, the ones making and enforcing the laws.
@@politenonparticipant4859 Or replace the panel door with a revolving one.
@@betornween Revolving door negates the effect of the air curtain.
4:03. I’ve worked in a metal shop for 2 years, I manufacture parts ranging from blender part to motorcycle seats. The company that work for even makes parts for spacecraft testing. The most accurate measurements that I have had to work with is 10/1000ths of an inch, which by the way is around the thickness of a strand of hair. This guy have to comply with the lettering on a package that have to be more accurate then the spacecraft parts that I have made..... just let that sink in.
Their for space craft, by a private company, I think thats different then type on a package, mandated by the government
@@alfredmorency8296 ohh so that Makes sense then
My bet... that inspector was looking for something under the table. From an honest business man.
Tax dollars at work
Lots of people on the government's dole need to justify their paycheck.
I love that PragerU is making these people’s voices heard.
I really feel bad for small businesses and entrepreneurs who have to deal with bureaucratic red tape. However, most regulations are intended to protect consumers, the environment, and workers from being exploited by mega-corporations whose only concern is to extract as much profit as possible. PragerU's solution is to vote Republican and advance neoliberal economics - In this case deregulation of industry and tax cuts to the wealthy so they and their corporate friends can enjoy even more wealth, when in reality we need to vote Democrat to protect working class Americans, while working to reform any regulations deemed restrictive for small businesses to allow them to pursue the American Dream. PragerU is only making these people's voices heard so they can manipulate the message.
W voting democrat means voting for socialism. Today’s democrats are way too radical. Traditional liberalism is good, but today is not.
@@michealfelps5777 The vast majority of Democrats are neoliberal corporatists who take in millions from billionaires and corporations, they're not radical lol. Biden advocated gutting social security on multiple occasions. The "radical socialist" part of the Democratic Party (Bernie, AOC, Omar, etc.) make up roughly 5-10 (if even that) individuals out of roughly 280 Democrat representatives. Don't worry, regardless of if Trump or Biden wins, the working class loses. The rich will get richer, the poor will get poorer.
W I don’t think your estimates are true when neoliberals still vote Democrat. The reason walk away is a thing is because they don’t recognize their party anymore. And when Nancy is calling the shots those radical views are going to be implemented or atleast tried to. Trump created the LOWEST percent of unemployment for blacks and Latinos. He is helping people get jobs and creating better lives for themselves. Though this country is not perfect I believe that trump can get down in government spending and help small businesses survive. He passed an executive order to stall payroll taxes for the households making less than 100k. So I think while the richer are getting richer, I think the poorer are getting richer as well. Without COVID I believe the country would be doing exponentially better. Leaving the country in a less than likeable state to a puppet with dementia is not what is needed. I say 4 more years.
@@michealfelps5777 Interesting take. I don't understand the first two sentences however, it's true neoliberal economic ideology is dominant in both parties, which is why Democrats who used to support working class Americans in the 60's are losing their support to Trump, because his message speaks to them. Pelosi is always at odds with the progressive wing, look at the race between Kennedy and Markey, that basically sums up the divide between the neoliberal corporate wing and the progressive wing within the party. I don't think Trump's tax cuts created the lowest unemployment (pre-covid), they were projected to be even lower if I'm not mistaken, the economy was already growing at a steady rate and unemployment was decreasing. Although the tax bill gave extra pocket money for all Americans, 80% of the benefits went to the top 1%, that's not by mistake. If demand isn't there, businesses won't open more plants in the U.S., In don't think that money was reinvested. Personally I don't believe government is the problem, Keynesian economics proved to work from the 30's to the 60's to reduce unemployment and reduce wealth and income inequality by generating jobs and taxing the wealthy and corporations. Either way a puppet gets elected, Trump is no different - taking orders from Charles Schwab, Kenneth Griffen, Ronald Cameron, Bernard Marcus, etc. (long time Republican billionare donors who are in direct contact with Trump). Foreign wars will continue to privatize natural resources to American companies, increased police state, the rich will lavish in wealth. The only issues you vote for in American politics are social. Big money corrupts both parties. Let Trump rule 4 more years, let him become dictator, at this point it doesn't matter.
Man: *opens a cookie store*
Government: I'm about to end this mans whole career.
Man is lazy with his allergy warning
Someone allergic to coconut: i'm about to end this man's whole career by suing the crap out of him.
Some men just want watch the cookie crumble.
This might be the one time this stupid overused comment applies.
@@crowmaster9652 says that the dude working 100 hours a week is lazy. Anyone who thinks this way need not be lecturing anyone about anything.
"...just because we can."
The door problem perfectly encapsulates what is wrong with many large systems. No one talks to each other & the onus is put on you to find a solution, even in impossible situations.
I had a similar problem when I was getting a disabled wetroom fitted, I managed to convince them to have the door swing inward & promised if I somehow lept from my chair & landed on the floor directly behind the door, I wouldn't sue, I signed a document saying so. All the "regulations" for space between the toilet & sink etc, meant rules & regulations took over from actual usability.
All neuaunce & critical thinking has been lost & generic tick boxes have taken their place.
Yeah no the conflicting regulations thing is beyond ludicrous. "Look man, I JUST changed that door for the FDA guy. Here's his freaking number. YOU call him and YOU GUYS figure out which way it's supposed to swing." That part ALONE makes me violently angry at our government and should never be acceptable.
@Oliver Action Even if it just means some schmuck wasn't doing his job in order to squeeze a bogus fine out of someone it STILL means that somebody just isn't doing their job and people are paying for it.
@Oliver Action If that is true then take this story more like a parable, the sentiment & problems discussed in the video still hold true.
Coconut cookies: WARNING CONTAINS COCONUTS
Warning: water is wet.
Warning death is permanent.
Hello welcome I am from the Department of Redundancy Department, and I have been sent by the Department to assist you. Good morning how may I be of service?
It’s the “coffee is hot” bs all over again
@@michaellyle859 except that the mcDonald'w coffee was unlawlfully hot, many customers had complained, and the old lady never got anything for it anyway
Door: Exists
Regulations: Wait, that's illegal.
Firstly, his factory is located in new mexico. Secondly, he doesn't own a bakery, his factory produces 12 million cookies a day. Thirdly, the door regulations he mentioned aren't anywhere in the department of agriculture's regulations since only FDA has jurisdiction over construction compliance so that's a complete fabricated lie. Lastly, according to his own book and on an interview with fox news, he admitted his revenue is upwards of $20 million and a profit margin of at least 30%
@@OfficialSilverMoon Yes, his revenue is high. So let's tax the heck out of him! He doesn't need that much money anyway. He works too hard to make a lot of money because he is a greedy capitalist. We need to make his life miserable until he gives up working and ends up jobless and living off the government just like the rest of us! Signed, your liberal socialist.
@@OfficialSilverMoon oh man, post the link to the interview
@@arlofs ua-cam.com/video/nRsm0D4upKk/v-deo.html
I Love President Trump. Jan 30th, 2017 "President Trump signed an order Monday aimed at cutting regulations on businesses, saying that agencies should eliminate at least two regulations for each new one". ! :-)
@CK Lim Ah yes, "Common sense isn't so common anymore"
Jet Engine Thrust wait...
I’m a diabetic and I love his products! Unfortunately, they’re just too expensive. I don’t buy them. I wish I could.
Maybe if the regulators would use some common sense on his company he could price them to where I could afford them.
It's because of the regulations that is probably causing him to overprice his food
Bernie: that's it! I'm stepping in! I purpose diabetic cookies for all at no cost to the buyer. Well... at least not when I buy them anyways. *has fake heart attack*
Ow, you mean like how the Cuban and Venezuelan government controls the prices?
@@ryangriffiths3554 that and minimum wage.
Hahahahah I wish. Products for diabetics don't cost a cent more to make, they're priced more because people tend to pay higher prices for them for a variety of reasons. You're just not wealthy enough to be in that market. It's a common misconception that "businesses want your money" - that's not correct, businesses don't give a shit about _your_ money, they care about _the most money_ they can make for their effort. In the case of products that are less elastic in demand (because you CAN'T buy other cookies if you're diabetic), the most money is made by cutting off people like you from the market because a higher price (within reason obviously), in this case, nets higher profit. Same reason why bread isn't $0.01 to sell to the abjectly poor.
You'd expect supposed experts of the free market like PragerU to know this since it's incredibly basic economics (demand-supply, elasticity), but nope, blame the government for it. Note: if you're diabetic, there's a decent chance that you'd be dead already without government regulation on how sugar-heavy foods are labeled.
People hear about the benefits of compounding interest in reference to their banking and how amazing it is to see money grow with compounding interest. What people do not hear is the tyranny of compounding Bureaucracy. Government agencies get a minimum of 4% growth yearly regardless of the need for expansion. To justify this money, they have to constantly create new rules and regulations to justify the increased budget and workforce. This is why a good idea like OSHA or the EPA evolve into business killing monstrosities over time. Once the original need has been met, they continue creating new and unneeded regulations to continue their jobs and agencies growth. People would be amazed at just how much over-regulation costs us daily.
Universities, private and public, do the same thing!
Edit: somebody beat me to it
@@wordwan That is where Trump could really rock the system if he had a Congress who would back him up. The way to balance the budget is to freeze spending at current levels and give bonuses on departments that did not spend the entire budget. If you gave a 10% bonus of dollars saved, it would be amazing how much waste would disappear and overnight.
FDA: door must swing inward.
USDA: door must swing outward
Anarchists: *no door, just a man-sized hole in the wall*
@sycuro Maybe we can just send them the people who insist on paying with pennies.
OSHA requires all door in a public or commercial building to swing outward except in government buildings because those never catch on fire
Shower enthusiasts: door must be sliding.
Man-sized hole? Oh, so sexist...
@@grantflippin7808 Of course, it is too much trouble for an OSHA worker to spend the 2 seconds that it would take to explain this to a small business owner!!
"Joseph's Lite Cookies" huh? If I ever come across them I'll be sure to try and help boost your 1% profit margin and buy some.
Profit margin is a ratio and is unaffected by revenue.
@@lovedogs1999 Not true. Many costs are not per-unit, and as such, reduce their marginal portion of gross profits as sales increase.
@@godskook He didn't say profit, he said profit margin. The business owner himself said (multiple times) that he receives a profit margin of 1% OVERALL, wherein 1 million cookies sold = $10,000 profit. More cookies sold = more profit, but the margin stays the same (in this case).
If the cookies' marginal portion of profits was a big enough factor to affect overall margin in the manner you suggest, the business owner would have mentioned it at some point. From the presentation, we can only conclude that his simplified math is sufficiently explanatory of his actual profit margin.
@@johncrafton8319 I'm well aware of that, and that's included in my response's reasoning.
Yeah, I looked around too - even at netrition.com (where he sold them, at a pretty decent price, but it says they were discontinued by the manufacturer). Looks like he's out of the cookie selling business right now. (And yes, it's hard to be profitable, particularly with low-carb ones, which is why you see how crazy expensive some of the diet foods are...)
He forgot to mention that the inspectors are living gods and that what they say must be done or else.
When they hold the power to drop a fine that can shut down your business in an instant... that can't be closer from the truth!
And they are hired not elected so there's no easy way go get rid of them. They just stay there election after elections
not only that the type of people that gravitate to that job are the kind of people with 'Napoleon Complex' they are the type of people who absolutely LOVE showing that they have power over you and go out of their way to prove it at times.
not just inspectors either, many bureaucrats are like that.
ua-cam.com/video/xxmXeLEcs9s/v-deo.html
(^that is where he starts talking about bureaucrats but honestly that whole video is worth watching)
My first day on the job was met with the local public health inspector who threatened to close the store down that instance if I continued to stay clocked in for not having the right health card. I was like seriously why couldn't I be assigned non food related tasks? I clocked out and the store still got a demerit 🤷🏽♂️. They are tyrants.
"Entrepreneurs: the only people who work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week." -Lori Greiner, Shark Tank
This dude works 100 hours a week and loves his job. My man!
If this man works 100 hours a week and sleeps 8 hours a day, he has less than 2 hours per day left for Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, brushing teeth, getting dressed and undressed and doing his household
@@mylordandsaviour4786 You can eat and solve problems at the same time. Filling out paperwork, etc..
When you love what you do, you don’t consider it work. At his level, you HAVE to be good at time management and knowing how to prioritize, or else you’ll be floundering.
I don't believe a morbidly obese man with tyoe 1 diabetes can work 100 hours a week.
@@wordwan No, I have never seen a morbidly obese chef work 100 hours a week.
A video like this back when I was in high school would have been using in a PowerPoint project for gov class now days in schools a video like this would get the teacher kicked out of a job.
My 8th grade social studies teacher uses PragerU videos in class.
@@DorianTMChannel He is a rare breed, I was forced to take citizenship, social studies and alike classes every semester (University regulation) when doing my second major in north America (Electronics engineering, after my math major), and all the non STEM teachers were leftists, only reason i never failed a class was because as an engineering student I was a few hundred IQ points ahead of most of my classmates and it showed on my essays. A social studies professor once gave me a bad grade on an essay about social inequality (I quoted Margaret Thatcher and he could not forgive me) and blamed my lack of argumentative English skills (I am German) so i took my essay and an essay of a native English speaker to an English teacher and asked which was written by a native and which by a foreigner, he said mine was the native one and after I pointed out which was which he helped me counter the failing grade back to a pass (Since the worse essay had a pass).
@@Ch4os4ever Wow that sucks
This video is very inaccurate and misleading this man owns a international business that makes 12 MILLION cookies a day this man is a multimillionaire and does not work 100 hours a week.
Yeah maybe because this entire video is full of propaganda misinformation
I myself am starting my own business and some of the regulations don't even make sense. I have to own the physical location of my business, before I can even get an interview for one of my licenses! It's feasible but a headache all at the same time. Then I have to wait up to 60 days, before I get the okay from the government to sell my product. Meanwhile, I am going to have to buy low priced products, in order to raise the price to pay for my lights, heating, air, and water utilities. Before I can do that, I have to get a different license from the county my shop is located. I get the first license is necessary, but what about the second license? I can get around it by not hiring employees, then I'm not required to have the license. How is one person to do it all? Well, here's to the power of all thing possible through Christ. Prayers please. God bless America, but hopefully this BIG government will shrink. A lot of unneeded government employees if you ask me.
Dan Dawson that seems like a headache. But people need to stop saying “I understand this regulation, but not THIS one”. That right there. You just validated the role of government in your business. And if you validate their existence, then you can’t be surprised when they try and take more control. It’s proven in every single country everywhere. Check out Dave Smith or Tom Woods for better clarity on government hehe
@@bradvincent2586 touché, but I understand how it is necessary for me to run background checks on the people purchasing from my business. So, jumping through hoops with the ATF is necessary. Government involvement seems necessary there, but paying more money to my county, in order to sell goods, seems overkill. I mean shouldn't the outrageous property taxes be enough? On top of that, the IRS makes me jump through hoops on the tax side. It's just ridiculous. Remember how easy it was to have a lemonade stand in the 80's? 😂🤣
@@bradvincent2586 my biggest issue, is having a government tell me how to sell firearms, when these ignorant politicians don't even know the difference between a round and a bullet. 🤮
I really hope you can do it! We really need to be shrinking regulations! Best wishes
Brad Vincent I believe some regulations are good. I don't want to have to sift through my food that's been served to me, looking for cockroaches that got cooked along with the food like in Singapore. The kitchen at least should be in good working order and clean. The FDA originally was formed to protect the customers from fraud and poison, for example, to make sure that sugar sold as sugar was actually sugar and not sand. They're not doing their job properly these days though; corn syrup from China can be packaged and sold as "organic honey" from Brazil. Government has gotten so heavy with corruption that the majority of its regulations that they foist upon people is basically to discourage people from creating new businesses. Big corporations and godless, greedy government officials are to be thanked for that. Big wealthy corporations have big wealthy lobbyists. Kids can't even sell lemonade anymore because a$$holes in government created a requirement that the kid must own a prohibitively expensive license, ostensibly for "safety reasons".
Yo dawg, we heard that you DESPISE regulations, so in order to make your life a living hell on Earth, we've put local regulations into in the state regulations so your federal regulations have regulations in the regulations that go against each regulation so your regulations have anti-regulations that regulate the regulations in these regulations.
Lmao
It’s funny because it’s true.
-"Pimp my Ride"- Bust my country
Thanks for reviving this OG meme.
@Childish Gambino Wow. Look who's made it here!
I saw your clip (aka "This is America"). Nice one. Keep 'em coming!
"You people just care about profits"
Of course, that's the sol reason why company exists. A CEO who don't care about profit is a bad CEO.
No and yes.
"If Men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary."
-James Madison
"Even if all boardrooms and executive offices were cleared out and filled with archangels, at the end of the day they would still have to think about profits."
-F.A. Hayek
"A business exists for two main reasons or has two main goals; 1) serve the customer. 2) Produce profits."
-Orrin Woodward
@@HuntingTarg Did not find Hayek's quote and Woodward's quote. And I don't know what you are arguing about.
"If you are not in business for profit or fun then what the hell are you doing in business?" Robert Townsend if I remember correctly.
dude his lying through his teeth, he has multiple factories and sells a crap ton of cookies. Google "Joseph’s Lite Cookies" I'm not making this up.
youre 14 shilling for capilatists, edgy
Assert dominance by having a door that swings BOTH ways
So he can be in violation of both sets of regulations simultaneously?
@@TheStartrek99 I'm curious to see if this would actually be the case. Knowing bureaucrats, it's likely so.
Power move, just make a straight wall. No door. Just a wall. Then a window that they have to crawl through.
@@TheStartrek99 what about a sliding door?
@@moonlightbuterfly it would depend on the exact wording of both policies. If it's essentially "if you have a hinge door it must open this way" then a sliding door would work. If it's "your door must open into (or out of) the kitchen area" on either policy then not so much.
Our founding fathers are still rolling in their graves to this day.
I think they've long since dug their way down to the core with all the rolling
Well to be fair, America's been going against the Founding Fathers' wishes since at least 1861.
The foundunf fathers were deista and illuminati freemasons. Dont put your faith in them
@@dathip How dare you our founding fathers were some of the best people to walk this earth. Idgaf about slavery shits irrelevant everyone did it.
Our founding fathers would indeed be rolling in their graves from a lot of things.
Whether it be rampant corporatism. The military industrial complex and for some of them, that slavery is illegal. Overall thought the founding father's weren't anarcho-capitalists really.
Though they lived in a time of vast inequality and horrible conditions in a lot of ways, with child labor, diseases and many regulations needing to be done. I think business wise?
They'd certainly think today looks a lot better and safer and depending on which ones you talk to, you'd either find people calling for more regulation in some ways or lesser regulation.
Some would even call for more centralization of government. The founding fathers are a divided group and really aren't people to look up to noir can their political affilation in modern terms really be easily guessed at.
Coconut Cookie: "Hello. I am a Coconut Cookie."
Inspector: "Um, it doesn't have a food allergy warning for coconuts."
Coconut Cookie: "Yes, because I'm a Coconut Cookie. It's common se-"
Inspector: "Scrap the packaging!"
If you eat *coconut cookies* with a *coconut allergy* I think you should be denied any medical treatment. No EpiPen, no doctors. We need less people wasting our oxygen.
There's some stupid people in the world, dude. Here I think the company dodged a potential lawsuit from an angry customer. Even if the business were to win that lawsuit, the costs of it would probably be more than the cost he had to pay to redo the packaging.
@@lkjkhfggd I can understand you're saying that. Common Sense law has gone out the window.
@@lkjkhfggd It's a sad world when you can sue a company because you bought coconut cookies and ate them despite having a coconut allergy.
@Chad K Are you serious? He had to waste $15,000 for new packaging because he needed to say the *coconut cookies* have *coconut* in them. It's common sense. It's like putting a disclaimer that an orange juice smoothie has orange juice in it.
It's too bad you can't fix stupid. There's plenty to go around, according to the cookie master.
No child ever said, "When I grow up, I want to be a bureauocrat."
Maybe because that's "bureaucrat", not "bureauocrat".
you haven't met a bureaucrat's kid yet have you?
You obviously haven’t met or heard of Alexandria Occasional Cortex
Marvin Murphy I WAS GONNA MAKE THAT JOKE
Marvin Murphy it’s a great joke
Sadly, that’s probably the reason why most shop owners decided to franchise instead of creating their own local brands...
who do you think pushes for the regulations? It's always big businesses duping feel good voters into hurting small businesses.
it really is. $30k to $40k up front. 6% gross sales annually...$60k on $1 million revenue. plus in mcdonalds case, mcdonalds owns the property so you pay rent to mcdonalds, also you buy the furnature and fixtures from mcdonalds and you buy the food from mcdonalds. Mcdonalds decides in 10 years time for a remodel to update the brand.... you buy more from mcdonalds! and the franchise owner is responsible for any employee issues....injuries, sexual harassment claims, etc. mcdonalds has no liability.
At the hospital where I work we keep having issues because we can't get door handles that meet both state mental health code and ADA code at the same time. We have no idea what door handles to keep on the doors anymore.
Puking Dino Haha...I was going to reply to the original comment, but your comment seems to have the best option, I mean...Make them deal with it!
Cause they don't know
Bellicose Pariah It is time to downsize the government!
As a Locksmith,
I see this all the time......
It is good for my business. It is still very frustrating, I always try to keep my customers in the right....
@Agt.BADASS because there is no "competition" between government agency. They get their dollors from the same taxes
I hear you loud and clear
I too own a small business, although not dealing with good, it's a gift shop. But I also work 90 hours a week for minimal pay, just in the last 3 years. Been open 11 years. Still have a TON of regulationsions and inspections, and compliance. Add to that, the monster Amazon. I did not start for the money, but each month has become more difficult. I had to let go all employees, for the business could not handle the health insurance costs. So now it's just me. I'm 63 and don't know how long I can do this. I love what I do, and it's a hard decision to make. So please, don't give up and make your cookies!
Hang in there! Best wishes
@@t.c.8697 Thank you. I will!
Keep your mind open and keep searching for the right answer. It'll come eventually. I wish you the best of luck
"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help." --Ronald Reagan
IT ONLY TOOK NEOLIBERALISM 30 YEARS TO DESTROY AMERICAN PRODUCTIVE APPARATUS AND TO ALLOW CHINA TO SELL MORE COOKIES, ALL OF THE COOKIES.
@@fergusmcclintock8842 CORRECT, ALMOST LIKE KISSINGER WAS A CHINESE ASSET.
@@aaroncartoon WHY ARE WE SCREAMING
@Sheena J I LOVE LAMP
@@aaroncartoon Democrats aren't Liberals these days they are the extreme left gone mainstream.
I'm a small business owner, this man speaks my truth.
I work like he does.
I don't have a personal life.
Please listen..... Please.
I will
His international business makes millions of dollars a year
This man is not a small business owner he makes 12 million cookies a day on an international scale
@@ajanijohnson6587 wrong
@@mikhail3044 Dude look it up
Box : Coconut Cookies
Allergic Section Warning : Coconut.exe not found
Gov : Execute!
Raisa Apriliani that one makes the most sense out of all of them
Jack warr regardless it’s like saying the customers can’t read. And yet adding it in smaller print somehow makes sense.
I ate peanut butter, and almost died because in the allergy info didn't have peanuts in the section for the peanut butter. How was I supposed to know that their is peanuts in the peanut butter?
[This is Joke]
Warren Mitchum the labelling needs to be uniform though. In this instance yeah it is silly but the system simplifies it so people can’t eat one and sue the shit out of the company. These allergens are probably listed elsewhere so the system needs to be objective to stop it from failing.
J Ay because it may be a “peanut butter” made out of a substitute
Love his last line "I have to get back to work"... Wish we could get the government to work for small business rather than against it.
government working for small business = no government.
@@Bezmenov93 It used to be this way and it needs to be again
As seen on a jar of Planter's Peanuts...
"Allergy Alert: May contain peanuts"
May?
Replace it!
Why would anyone who's allergic to peanuts even buy the same goes for coconut cookies!
Gmo products for the win! Like the beyond meat burger, peanuts that are an entirely different product not meant for human consumption but the FDA allows it anyways because the ingredients follow proper procedure lol
You gotta question everything these days. Things that say they *may* contain something raises a red flag imo
It better contain peanuts!
@@ryangriffiths3554 and apparently selective breeding doesn't do the same (make it an entirely different product)
I wanna go work for a lab that "tests" all these cookies...
"What do you do for a living?"
"I work at a lab where all i do is eat...i mean test cookies"
*eats cookie
"Welp, I'm not dead, guess they passed"
And it is because of people putting sawdust in cookies is why we can not have actual kinder eggs in the US.
I work in State Government as an IT Professional. We have to comply with many different federal regulations. The problem with many of these regulations is that not only that they tend to contradict each other like Mr. Semprevivo points out, but in the IT world they are bout 5 - 10 years out of date. Technology changes about every quarter in the IT world, and they do not keep up with these changes. Even if we have something that is FAR superior to what is in their regulation, we still are written up. The problem with Big Government is that they CANNOT do the job as efficiently or effectively as the private sector.
"I could go on, but so could anyone who owns a small business" *SOOOOOOOO TRUE!!!!!!*
My dad ran an auto garage, originally started by my grandfather in 1944. All the regulation, all the permits (that's a whole another scam) ... the fees, etc., my dad closed the business after 60 years.
THANK YOU BIG GOVERNMENT!
Sorry to read that. Most people become libertarians by one of two reasons: by inspiration and by desperation. I have seen on eyes of my parents the claws in my small country with big government. The more is big, more is corruption. Changing laws, over night. Bribes...what to say.
@@MrAceman82 I'm from a small town in the south of Argentina, we got a giant block filled to the top with government employees, the city hall. The running joke is "There's more people in there than out here". You can arrive at any time and no one will be working in that building. Meanwhile my dad closed the pharmacy he used to own because no matter what he did he couldn't make any profit, the taxes felt like a hurricane, they took everything away.
Do you guys realize that less government means more freedom for a small minority of people, and LESS freedom for the rest of the people? Are you actually aware of that?
@@Simboiss From my experience, the bigger is the government, the bigger is corruption. I saw this at first hand. I think all others in this thread saw that. I am not against government, that is necessary: Army, Police and Justice Courts. Anything above that is thief on hard earned money from tax payers. The politicians should have limited power, especially in economy. The less power they have, the less corruption will be, and less mess will be. The best way to destroy competition is by heavy regulations.
I would like to read your explanation, how is less government means less freedom for the rest of the people. If you believe the government is saint, think again.
You trace a very arbitrary line between what the state should do and shouldn't. I trace another line, farther than yours. Why do you think your line is better?
If the government is corrupted, then the businesses are too. It takes two to tango. My explanation is that, if you remove the government's influence, businesses can do what they want even more, so it means the rich get a free pass even more. Rich minority, poor majority.
Competition is a waste of time, energy and ressources. Having businesses that create products the way the clients want without profit is more efficient. No need for promotions and ads. No stupid decisions over what is profitable, and no parasites that decide their own salaries without doing any work.
We've had a similar experience. Our company sells software to city governments all over the country. Many of these governments require us to file for local business licenses, alter our insurance policies to include them as a beneficiary, meet local hiring practice and minimum wage requirements, etc. in order for them to process payments to us even though we don't have a business presence in their city. Many states also require us to file state income tax returns and sales tax returns even though our business doesn't have a business location or employees there. The result is that we are forced to file many tax returns nationally even though we are a company with less than 10 employees. We estimate that we spend approximately 40 percent non-engineering staff time just filing paperwork instead of using that resource to do marketing or sales. The problem is that the amount of paperwork is the same whether you are a large or small company. Allocating a couple of hundred man hours per month to do the paperwork isn't much if you are a large company of 1,000+ employees but it can be a company killer if you have less than 10 employees.
it sounds like your biting off more than you can chew, 10 employees and your selling to the entire country? maybe focus on local governments and businesses? or hire someone to handle the paperwork so the engineers can have more time to develop the product? sorry if these seem like bad suggestions im not experienced in the business world, I hope your company does well :)
A lot of the paperwork is unnecessary. We have one city that requires that we DON'T offer medical benefits to domestic partners and another city that require that we do. City governments shouldn't really stick their noses into a vendor's policies. As for selling to the entire country, most vendors selling products to city governments have to do this because no single city purchases enough of any given product for you to run a business. That's why you have to sell to many cities. For example, suppose you were in the the business of supplying traffic ticket pads to police departments. There's no way you can sell enough traffic ticket pads to one city to run a company so you have to sell to the entire country's police departments in order to have enough revenue to run a small business. It was a reasonable suggestion that you made but for many products, there isn't enough revenue at one city to support a business.
"alter our insurance policies to include them as a beneficiary," Wait What?!
Seems like it's almost meant to discourage entrepreneurship
@Tucson Jim Illegals taking American jobs would destroy the economy though. Hiring illegals is a very selfish way to get rich and I'm pretty sure it's also illegal.
Good point. In situations like that, one should ask, who benefits?
@@Mythhammer Big successful companies, because there's no more competition. For all we know, they're probably paying the Government to push more regulations!
@@t3ddyb34r5 bulls eye! If Dems are known only for spending money, how is it they're billionaires? Is some other source funding them? What role could they possibly play that is in some way connected to government regulation? If you've been hearing the news and other UA-cam sources separate from msm, you'll get the answers from that plus much more. Corruption lies deep
Bingo
FDA: *wants door to swing in*
AG: *wants doors to swing out*
Joseph Semprevivo: *makes two doors to make the government happy*
FDA: *complains for the door that swings out*
AG: *complains for the door that swings in*
Gabi Caviedes you explained it better. Lol
Ok great, pocket door it is dickheads.
@@gabicaviedes7906 JS: *makes 1 door that swings both ways*
FDA and AG: Well crap we can't complain about it.
Aaanndd.....he ended up getting fined from both of them
The door and packaging issues hurt to hear. The type one was especially infuriating. How the hell can you tell what a hundreth of an inch is, and further pursue and punish them for it?
You can't. 1/64th an inch is approximately the thickness of two pieces of masking tape. Unless the inspector was using micrometers there's no way they can tell it's that far off.
@@michaelsorensen7567 You're probably right that it wasn't exactly 1/100 inches, but it's still not past regulators to harp on such small infractions. My dad owns a restaurant of his own, and some regulators really are this bad for him too. It's asinine.
@@Zosso-1618 regulations are to keep competition away.
The thing I don't get is why that is even any kind of a problem
Why does it matter what way the door swings
Now multiply the government "help", hours spent on compliance issues and fines costs by 10x, add the high probability of your store get robbed by thiefs in the equation and there you have Brazil's conditions to open a business
That's why the right to bare arms is important. Sooner or later when the government takes soo much food out of your mouth you get to feed them something to..lead.
@Dave Cockayne Oh boy, the image brazillian press spread is so wrong lol
@Dave Cockayne "American women are all 100lbs overweight and insane feminists." At least the ones who aren't taken
Don't businesses in Brazil also have to pay 42% of their workers' salaries to the national pension fund as well?
This reminds of me of some overregulation combined with industries gaming customers via the regulations, as in my case: I recently had a small outbuilding built behind my house, with just a toilet and sink as far as plumbing is concerned. It's a non-living space. To save some money, my dad and I did the plumbing ourselves. My dad is extremely knowledgeable about plumbing and has lots of experience... in his state, and not my state. The inspector came out and said it wasn't to code, and if I didn't fix it soon, the fine would be $1,000.
My dad had driven an hour-and-a-half to come help me the first time, which took us several hours, and he had too much on his plate to come back and help me fix our mistakes. I didn't have the time to figure it out on my own, so I hired a plumber. The plumber's price for less than an hour's labor after I had already done all the digging and positioning? $1,000! I wonder where they came up with that price.
We tried to sever a house from farmland I wanted to keep in Ontario. The govt demanded an expensive survey. Done. Then another, and another. I finally gathered that the regional govt worked w/ the approved surveying firm.
This video is exactly why:
1. Big government sucks.
2. I may never open my own business.
That'll teach them
May be an excellent time to open a business a few years down the road though assuming Trump gets reelected.
@Black shuck Small businesses pay such a small percentage of government graft costs, they are hardly worth it. Some small business owners wouldn't even know HOW to bribe their government agents. Meanwhile, big industry lobby groups pay millions directly into the pockets of our government parasites.
Oliver Action
How so, dude? It's not like bureaucracy works for the people.
This video is exactly why:
1. Prager U is lying. Again. ua-cam.com/video/UpyBct6P-ZA/v-deo.html
2. Pisschuggers like you speak in bumper sticker slogans like "big government sucks."
Ughhh, and to think, we Americans separated from England for much less.
@J Who's "we" and how is it "worse"?
@Fracking Saves What about somalia?
"He hath sent hither swarms of Officials, to harass our People and eat out their substance" SEEM FAMILIAR?
America didnt rebel because of the taxes they rebelled because they weren't getting any recognition in their area they didny want to be bossed around from someone on the other side of the world
We fought the British Empire because of overtaxation, poor representation or nonexistent representation in parliament, and used like a resource colony with no regard to the inhabitants.
Fast forward 250 years and the US became the very thing it fought. It moved taxes. Laws and regulations are disjointed with little regard to the people they affect. Politicians are too busy starting and fighting wars to care about citizens, only showing a shred of interest during election seasons.
Therapist: Do you want to make cookies?
Me:
"What do you want do become when you grow up kid?"
"I want to become a government bureaucrat."
"Why?"
"Because I like destroying everyone's career."
I hope that regulators would cooperate and choose what way the complicated mechanism called "door" should "open".
Why? Because its a license to steal.
@@principleshipcoleoid8095 Why would they do that? Their job is to lobby the interests of big business - and the one way is creating contradicting rules that your average Joe cannot accomplish thus making him always guilty. There's even an example in the video.
it destroy dreams
@Oliver Action
Making millions doesn't mean millions of profits. A 1% profit margin means that he would need to sell 100 milion $ in cookies to make a million in profits. Yes, he makes millions, but 99% of them goes to paying the workers, buying the necessary material and ingredients to keep the business going and meitenance.
Wow. Once again, the Randomness of UA-cam saves me.
I literally just left a comment about Regulatory Capture (which fits the problem described in this video) and some idiot left a comment on my post, saying "if a small business can't compete, they must have inferior product," or some other such garbage.
I'm going to link this video.
Or it means major antitrust laws are being violated *cough* Google *cough*
I can already tell you his response, "PragerU? *scoff* They can't make well reasoned arguments, so I didn't even watch."
in America men get ZERO handouts from the government
@@QuippersUnited how do you know his arguments if you don't watch?
@@QuippersUnited Many of the videos are sound. Ironically, I don't often agree with Dennis Prager himself when he makes videos.
But you can't just blow off an argument or position you never hear.
But I don't argue against guys like that on the internet to change their minds. I do it because someone reading the thread might be persuaded
And on top of it all, we are taxed every step of the way.
Gov't needs to be cut by no less than 90%
We got taxes for taxes for taxes. If we had the same taxes under Great Britian then today U.S. we be living a lot better. We are taxed 41% more then what we had under Great Britian.
We need to really do something about the tax problem.
So true
Uh...no it doesn't need to be cut by 90% that is far far FAR too much, the oligarchs need to be regulated the issue is that they are making legal bribes called donations to screw everyone else over. The other koch brother whos still alive should be in prison.
@@morphor Wow, you need to get educated on how this all works my friend. You truly don't know much about how this all works based on your understanding here.
@@DarthBalsamic i know enough, i know it needs to arguably be cut, but im sorry i believe in a balance between. Socialist and capitalist programs (bernie sanders or bust). My political beliefs stem from the economic crash/ great recession of 2008 and we are headed for inevitably another one thanks to the same oligarchs who screw us over again and again and again. The great depression gave rise to fdr arguably the greatest president we ever had who stood up to the oligarchs of the time and built our infrustructure. Because of him we didnt have another crash for 50 years until some of the regulations he put in were removed because of the oligarchs who seriously have a money issue aka too much...trickle down has and will never work as people who make that much are almost always too greedy amd will make everyone else suffer in the process. Theres a reason why the french revolution happened.
This guy isn’t a “small business owner.” He literally owns a large factory with over a HUNDRED employees in New Mexico. Look it up.
Damn government. They can kiss my ass.
I feel so bad for this guy.
He' s a Multi-Millionaire
Literally on how I made my Millions-ua-cam.com/video/UpyBct6P-ZA/v-deo.html
Slippery Bill I watched the video, all I can say is that I do actually feel more better knowing that he did all that with a government who doesn't give a shit about him.
Oliver Action if you want a ” big deal government ” this video is clearly not for you. The whole point is to make the people free as possible, without a big government. And yes, when you're government is more interested in making the small company fail instead of succed is nothing to cry about, it's already a tragedy. I'm from a country where in the last 20 years social Democrats are still in power and even if we had a revolution still is no sign that we gonna get rid of them.
Oliver Action so don't take everything from granted like spoiled brats
Oliver Action 😂😂😂 tell that to people who lived in nazi Germany
As an owner of a medium-sized construction start-up, I can relate. 😤
Being in law enforcement I can truly understand and appreciate the frustration that you go through. It angers me to hear the hoops you have to go through to make things work. Thanks for telling your story.
***warning: comment may be a trigger for some***
I've had my fair share of bureaucratic B.S. in just owning a home. my local government's code enforcement makes the city upwards of $350,000 a year in "code violations". these violations range from a trash can being "too full", your grass being too tall (above 8" in my city), or even your siding on your house being too old and getting you evicted and your house condemned.
I had my run in with these individuals on several occasions, as my house was built in 1924. has an asbestos tar tile, and lead paint (I know it's lead paint cause it wipes off onto your hand if you lean on it.). The Code Enforcers would come by 2-3 times a week and put signs in my yard about chipped paint, grass too tall, a boat that hadn't moved in 3 weeks (this was winter when this one came in), and so on... At one point I was looking at $1500 in fines in just one month. that's when I had enough and started looking up these "codes". And you know what, I learned the agency itself was a violation
In my city, there is a local law prohibiting any 3rd party company presenting itself as local government. There is also laws against excessive surveillance of a property. As too there is a law prohibiting any local code/law enforcement agency from hiring/using employees without PLE (police & law enforcement) training. And finally, since these rules/laws were written in the pre-internet era, "Any city code that is to be enforced must be available in print". the city put this rule in place so that the local printing companies could make money off the taxes (the mayor at that time owned the printing company).
So I refused the fines, I went to court, and presented the following. The company that were driving city vehicles and writing violations were from an agency 2 hours away, that they could have noted the month's worth of violations as one or waited til the next month to cite me as nothing had changed, none of the people of the enforcement agency had their ple certificates, and that if they wished to continue writing me fines, I needed a physical book of the codes, and new updated pages every time they change something (every Tuesday).
It's been 5 years and I haven't heard from them since.
I edited my comment, so you will be left wondering what I sayed that got me top comment.
Alexander Maraffio That would be called empathy, my friend.
If these things arent stopped, you will.
Bless you!
Yeah, because the problems seemed a bit unbelievable, almost as if key information was left out to give a certain narrative...
Right??? I feel like hitting some bureaucrat in the face with a swing door that swings both ways so they get twice the smack!
It's the same issue in income property. As a landlord it infuriates me when people (especially the younger generation) go on and on about rent prices and how high they are; quit talking to me and go talk to the government. We're not arbitrarily setting you rent prices all willy nilly, the government has their hand so far in my pocket with taxes and regulations, the prices are what they are to make the business work, and just barely at that. And now these genZ are begging the government for a "green tax" to "save the planet" : these kids have no idea that in 10 years time rent is probably going to be more than double, even if it's a 15% "green" business tax. See with a 15% tax the electric company charges me more, the gas company charges me more, the water company charges me more, all building and maintenance costs go up because the hardware stores charge me more, and I have to pay an additional tax. All this cost I'm not paying: YOU ARE, the renter. I have to increase YOUR rent to cover it.
Basically the government is responsible for your ridiculously high cookie and rent costs and if you have a bone to pick about it talk to the government, NOT the business owner.
If only these idiots lobbied for lowered cost instead of free stuff, their situation would have been better. Lower costs and burdens for all benefits society and improves efficiency.
Question is what would happen to a landlord that installs a water well, natural gas generator, and solar panels?
I see way more slum lords gouging for money they spend on drugs and whatever than I see honest renters trying to treat tenants fairly in the name of a modest lifestyle. Slumlords around here will screw you ten ways sideways on a Friday then be in jail by Monday for dangerous drugs they spent your hard earned money on.
And then they complain that their minimum wage job isn't a living wage, we've gotta raise the minimum wage so that we can live on our fast food jobs because oh no rent is so expensive and food is so expensive and my phone bill is so expensive... It sickens me that all this crap comes from people only a few years older than me who have no maturity. But then, every generation does this dumb crap, don't they? Guess we've just gotta wait for people to grow the hell up already and start taking responsibility for themselves. Might be a very long wait for a lot of them...
we would save a TRILLION $ a year if politicians cant leave the state or right off all their meals and clothes as "business meetings"
The funny thing is supposed to be a free country yet it's so much rules nothing just for business but in general... what becoming China with rules and rules and regulations not to mention surveillance...
I thought China doesnt have business regulations, that is why questionable food came out of questionable factories.
@@darnit1944 It has, but they are upheld whenever party bureaucrats want to. The level of corruption in China is unimaginable for an average American. As long as you kiss the ass of a local party leader, or higher than that, you are not bothered. China rarely shoots itself in the foot. The rules they make are for their enemies to respect, not for their allies as well. Business regulations in China are a joke and they are enforced only for foreign companies. And even among the foreign companies, not all of them have to respect them. It all depends how well acquainted those foreign companies are with the Chinese leadership and how well they get along. For example, German companies have a very good relation with the Chinese government today. The US companies not so much due to the trade war.
@@Kalimdor199Menegroth That sounds LIke RACISM! Reeeeeeeeeeee!
Srsly thou.
Sad but true. Sad. But. True.
@@darnit1944 now they have business as well just like America but tacky and cheap and the government controls everything but they have so much rules that just like hell except the one thing they watch everybody and I do mean everybody that is coming
@@Kalimdor199Menegroth Oh yeah, i forgot. You must also be a Communist party member to expand your business in China. They can bribe environment inspectors to give them a pass on polluting factories.
Why the heck is his profit margin so low in the first place? Either he is selling his cookies for WAY too cheap, or his cookies cost way too much to make. I'm all for getting rid of pointless regulations (though the idea that less regulations are always better is not true), but it seems like they are exaggerating things to make the regulation situation seem more dire for small business owners. Wait a sec, one google search on this guy reveals that he's far from a "small business owner". The guy is a millionaire! Seriously, the video frames it like this is a small business owner currently struggling to survive, but even back in 2013 he wrote a book on how he went from rags to riches. Heck, forget the profit margins! Even if this guy really is only earning $10,000 for every 1 million cookies he bakes, he's baking 12 million cookies a day! That's a profit of $120,000 PER DAY. Most people don't make that much in a year! Geez, with that many sales, of course he's able to bring those margins so low! Who cares about losing tens of thousands of dollars a year in cookie samples when you make back that much in a single day? Anyway, I would appreciate some citations, maybe showing the conflicting laws for doors, as well as the other regulations discussed? This is why I hate PragerU. Even when they are saying stuff I AGREE with, they lie and distort the truth without even providing citations, just assuming people will eat it all up without even a simple google search. Honestly this is making me think that these regulations should stay, because if PragerU can't even make an argument against excessive regulations without lying it's way through, then that tells me that there isn't a good argument to be made in the first place. Then again, maybe PragerU is so used to lying at this point that they can't help it.
Btw, it's kind of ironic how the description claims this story is about how the government "too often hinders much more than it helps" when 90% of the news stories on this guy are about how government tax savings allowed his business to thrive. lol!
Maybe he's trying to prevent other small businesses from opening their own cookie shop for less competition 🤔
Hello fellow Vaush viewers. Love exposing these frauds who piggy back off the mantra of "hard-work".
Man: opens a cookie store
Cookie monster : I'm about to end this mans whole career
I laughed harder at this then I should have
LMAO
Thanks for irl laugh
Wouldnt it help since he will be paying
or help him if he buys many cookies
My dad had small business like this. He always said "At the end of every week, I may as well just hand them the keys"! Taught me alot.
Sergio Bucciarelli Careful. Seriously. The NPCs of UA-cam don’t understand sarcasm
Well duh, if the product sucks obviously they will squeeze your dad dry.
Large corporations love regulations as they have the resources and man power to soak up the costs.
This forces small businesses out of the market and creates a monopoly. The government then complains about the monopoly they created and demands more power to fix it.
Exactly, large companies actually lobby in favor of more and more regulation because they know it will cut the legs out from under any potential competition. People use this as an example of how the free market doesn't work, but in reality its a perfect example of how government interfering with the market doesn't work.
Firelog: "Caution: Flammable"
I bought a bottle of Melitonin to help me get to sleep. It has a warning on the back that the product may cause drowsiness.
Imagine my shock when I read that! Who would have thought?
Here in Brazil we say, something like: Making burocracy to sell fluency. Most of the regulations are made to employe people in the state.
I just saw something in my local paper about how Obama created more jobs in his last months of office than Trump created in his first months of office. Of course! Because Obama used the people's money to artificially create government jobs. Trump creates his jobs in the private sector, aka the right way.
That's so true. As a Brazilian, I am so sick of our dumb and useless bureaucreacy.
@@austinkamp8048 conveniently omitting the fact that the first few months of trump's term were largely influenced by the residue and legacy of Obama's term...
@@j94c except he's been in office for over 20 months... so, your point? Lol
@@austinkamp8048 yah and the s&p has tanked since
Government: We need more tax money.
Also Government: Let’s regulate so much people can’t make jobs and taxable income.
People: WTF?!?
It's also amusing how the same politicians that shame good business people for increasing the amount of money they earn through work are the same politicians who demand we pay them more every year and increase what is relatably the government's profit margins. Of course, we'll also ignore the fact that many of these same people are also million and billionaires in their own right.
Caldaque so true
Here's a Regan Joke, "The Democrats want to tax anyone who moves, Regulate anyone who keeps moving, and subsidize anyone who stops moving"
Caldaque socialism at it’s finest
@@ohioFTW sadly that how most of the world works these days.
"I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you". Right.
@V 4 Vendetta This. Exactly my point.
I would also like to point out that "liberals" and "progressives" today are such people in name mostly (if not only).
This guy is a millionaire who made that money having a very succesful factory of prepackaged cookies, of which he sells 3.6 million packages a year, which recently expanded to also start producing honey. He admittedly does do this with few employees at only 12 (not 7, taking the public records I can find about his company here rather then his claim), but this really isn't the face of your average small business in quite a few ways.
The problem isn't that there is a lot of laws, it's that laws in the US are stacked up awkwardly on top of eachother often with different systems for the same problems and due to the way laws are stacked on old laws; and how the regulations for different agencies in the same area aren't properly matched to eachother.
It's a flaw in the US political system that makes this almost completely impossible to fix, and very easy to occur. - The problem isn't necessarily big or small government. Even with little regulation, regulations would still stack up awkwardly and poorly the same way.
I'm not sure what the fix to this one is, most other countries with similar levels of regulation especially around food safety really don't have this issue. If I'd start this place in the EU, despite being subject to pretty much the same level restrictions and safety measures, I'd only have to spend a few hours of that work week on compliance with the exception of when updates have to happen or the law changes for a short while (at those times there'd be a temporary peak).
The way the EU and most if it's member countries can do this is because they link the agencies in related fields under one bigger umbrella as well that oversees for conflicts like these, There may be a solution there for the US.
This guys problem isn't regulation itself, it's how it's implemented, which is the same under Republicans and Democrats in the end due to the above problem. What is different between the two? This guy gets a bunch of tax cuts when people vote Republican. - That's the difference. I am not saying that is definately his motivation behind this video, but it's certainly convenient.
*tl;dr PragerU uses millionaire small business owner to mislead people about the reason the problems this business faces in regulation exist.*
@The Absolute Madman
No, the effect and consequences would not be greatly diminished: The thing that makes this so hard in the US is the amount of different and unrelated laws you have to know in relation to a subject that are often not clearly set up in an easily usable system. Though you might save a tiny sliver of time with the laws containing less information individually due to them being "smaller" it wouldn't do that much. It wouldn't do nothing: Let me be clear, I am not saying that but it isn't actually that helpful.
You could theoretically strip the laws so far that you'd avoid the problem too: But in that case you've not fixed the actual problem and will be starting to compromise on the integrity of the tax system (which like it or not: And regardless of how big you'd like it: is needed) and food/worker safety laws.
What PragerU is doing here can be summarised like this:
It's like trying to solve a water leak in a tub by draining the tub instead of fixing the leak and then blaming the water: While funnily enough the person making that argument would benefit greatly form a lower water level, but the rest of society gets the short end of the stick.
The actual problem here is the complexity of the law, not necessarily how big or small the law is: That is a completely different ideological question and these are two questions are knowingly equated as the same here and at whose benefit exactly?
What really bothers me about all these regulations is that very almost none of them protect businesses from malignant consumers.
Where's the Government when the corner store is getting robbed for the second time in a year? Where's the rule of law when locals loot and riot? Where are the special protections for producers and distributors?
I'm convinced that most people in government could care less about decent people, as long as they stay in office.
I mean if I had allergies to coconuts and the warning wasn't on the package I would think they would be substitute coconut cookies with no real coconut. Only to suffer and have an investigator literally show the bag with a missing warning only to sue the cookie business and take the money.
Sometimes these regulations prevent people from suing businesses into bankruptcy.
JUST A THOUGHT!
couldn't care less
@@crowmaster9652
Or maybe people should read the ingredient list that comes right before the allergy warning and actually care about their own health instead of being lazy, money hungry, and eager to sue people for a quick buck because they don't care about vigilance.
@@lilchristuten7568 chivalry is dead buddy, byzantine empire is over. Also boohoo to the guy who gets sued for a misprint on their own food. You liberals need to wake up and get a grip.
@@crowmaster9652
This has nothing to do with chivalry (and no it is not dead) it's about being a decent human being who has enough diligence to care about their own health enough to see if the ingredients on prepackaged food have anything they are allergic to in it, instead of just assuming that it has substitutes.
He wouldn't get sued for a misprint he would get sued for not having an allergy warning for a product with the allergen in the name of the product and clearly listed in the ingredients.
After working 100 hours a week and then get told I need to waste time adjusting my door so it swings in the opposite direction, I think I would have lost my mind and started screaming in a fit if a 2nd health inspector walks into my business and it needs to go back the other way
The 2 inspectors should have a duel. Use rolling pins or french knives. Whoever wins, follow their regulations.
What I might've done in that situation is send a copy of both inspectors' reports to the opposite inspector and have them battle it out with each other.
Imagine our reality in Argentina, if we see this situation as a paradise
What is it like there?
@@hatchettwit According to a recent survey, a company like the one of the video has between 60 and 102 taxes to pay. The proportion of the sum of taxes can easily climb over 65% of total income. Regarding controls, I really don't know if there is some seriuos study that can enumerate them. What entrepreneurs do, is to open their business, and let the inspectors come with their laws and fines
Ouch!
Fede Vieira nuca había leído algo tan cierto JAJAJAJA, soy de Venezuela.
Coincido totalmente.....yo sueño con ser emprendedor en un pais como EEUU
Business owner: exists
Government: I’m about to ruin this guys day.
And enjoy doing it
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Absolutely appalling. We must Fargo all the regulations, and respect only law passed by a legislature which respects the inalienable natural law rights of the People.
Only the legislature is supposed to have legislative powers under the constitution. And anything not listed in the constitution is a states issue. We go back to that, we free up a lot of people's money and time.
@@FreelanceDev4life We also have to bring States, and local governments into compliance with the Constitution.
PragerU is my daily dose of good sense.
Why would I not?
❤🤗
Completely agree on the extra costs I get charged for. Have a fire inspector come by my office costs me $750. He literally walked thru with the firemen and said that I had to put label on back door that says high voltage even though everything in that room was on a regular 220 breaker. He also wrote up a ceiling tile I had moved. He was going to have to come back to inspect that. Also had to install an emergency lockbox outside so they could access office without breaking glass. I understand that last request.
So after paying to install Knox box, paying for mounting thru brick wall, adding high voltage sticker on back door even though it clearly is not high voltage I paid out another $1600. I put the tile back for free.
So $2450 for a mounted lock box, a sticker and moving a ceiling tile. Plenty of other stuff that cost me stupid amount of money like having handicap ramp put in even though the office is not open to the public. Due to regulations it was required. 2 years later it never was used. It did cost me almost 4K for them to dig up sidewalk to install ramp and railing. Lots of other stupid shit going on too.
$2350
You guys know that he lies regularly right? He runs a factory, not a bakery.
I googled the company. It say bakery on google reviews. This guy does own a factory though.
Bakery and factory are not mutually exclusive terms.
gilbmj aww yeah, took the bait. How about the fact that he lies about the number of employees he has. Or how “each batch” of cookies per day is more than 100,000 cookies, so yeah, need to make sure he isn’t putting saw dust in there.
It’s his designers fault for not knowing packaging law, not the governments. He’s just a shitty capitalist who lies to make those below his class fight each other while we get poorer.
I love you PragerU you have made me mature and pay attention to the world around me instead of living my life never looking outside of my little box and never exploring outside of my loved ones beliefs.
"Come to the dark side. We have sugar free cookies that diabetics can eat"
HAHAAHAAA Yessssss with these cookies we will be UNSTOPPABLE
Just when you thought it was safe to go to the grocery store 😲 there she is, the diabetic cookie sampler with the world's smallest samples 😀
"The dark side of the bakery is a pathway to many samples some consider to be unhealthy."
@@Connor.SG-1Ring The f🤣🤣
Wait, you mean Jedi are evil?
When you think about it, government is a "socialist" unit embedded within a capitalist system. You don't get to choose your government, really. You choose who's in it, but that doesn't make a lot of difference, especially as far as the established bureaucracies are concerned. They are a monopoly force -- you don't get to choose a different bureaucracy to comply with, a different bureaucracy to pay taxes to. It's a zero competition game providing the worst customer service at the highest cost run by low effort, low intelligence employees that can't be fired no matter how incompetent they are and whose bad performance doesn't cost the bureaucracy business. Because you have no other choice. Government is itself socialistic.
It is a big club that looks out for its own, and you ain't in it, what is more it is the same club they use to beat you over the head with if you do not comply.
I agree but it's also another strawman
My dad owns his own small business. I can attest that his employees are like family. Just putting this here in case anyone thought it was an exaggeration.
Message to insane regulators: Don't let the swinging doors hit you in the *** on the way out -- or in. Or both. 🤬
TUCK - Hidden Values actually I’d like to swing the door AT THEM.
Just swing both doors at them at the same time, make a FDA sandwich
@@willmunoz1638 Amen!
Don't you "love the smell of FDA sandwich in the morning"? 😏
So it just occured to me, part of the issue is that you need the door to swing both ways IF you are lugging heavy equipment through the door in both directions on a regular basis. I work at a Chickfila, they have a big poster in the back of FDA and OSHA stuff, it's a fun read. The door between the front and the back of the store swings both ways, so people who are bringing heavy boxes of sauces/buckets of lemonade or iced tea/mop stuff to the front and those taking a lot of empty boxes/heavy trash bags/mop stuff to the back are all safe.
GRANTED, we're talking about one of the three largest fast food chains in the COUNTRY, and my particular franchise in that chain owns one of the top TEN Chickfila's in the country. I think also, that when you're talking about employee safety for our situation, you need that double swingy door. But it's unfair to use those regulations in an unfair squashing of small business, especially if it's not necessary, just excessive. I'd be interested to know what this guy's situation is so far as lugging heavy stuff through the doors. Overall though, I'm more inclined to be on his side. The FDA and the OSHA is just ridiculous sometimes.
But how else are we going to pay for everyone to have a government job? And how re we going to house, clothe, and feed the entire world's population now that we do that sort of thing?
err. just tax the rich sir
Take care of your country u elect people for your country not for others
@@aps-c1766 the rich will just shut down their business if you do so. There's no reason to work more to be taxed even more, in addition, the rich knows very well how to avoid taxes, so high taxes only hurt the poor and middle class.
@@aps-c1766 obvious mathematical genius
@@joeldsa3956 Bigot
I’m sure this is what its like everyday in California.
Jacob Paradis never visiting California until the Republicans replace the democratic leadership
I do residential real estate investment, have been for 13 years now, and it was made clear to me early on by people who invest all around the country, to AVOID buying property and investing in California at ALL costs.
IT IS.
Not just Cali but the East also, there you can't shit without greasing someone's palm!
You know in economics, there's a saying
Small businesses is the heart beat of the economy
well i guess he not the heart of the economy.
his company has a quote "international presence"-wikipedia, and makes 12 million cookies a day hes a multimillionaire
Government bureaucrats should have to have a label: WARNING does contain greedy incompetent tendencies.
and that my friend, is how the cookie crumbles
Totally unnecessary bureaucracy to keep themselves in jobs and fleece hardworking people. Its just one big racket.
Every time I enjoy my wife’s amazing cookies, I always want to start a cookie business not anymore. Thank you for this eye-opening message.
Most of the FDA's regulations wouldn't concern you. The only reason he has to follow them is because his factory makes 12 million cookies a day, he's not a small business owner en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Semprevivo
This guy isn't a small business owner. He works on an international scale with a factory making millions of cookies a day. He is worth millions of dollars, he is not your friend.
@@dylanraub2263 You lost me at "he is not your friend" by failing to explain how exactly.
@@SepticFuddyhe has interests opposite to yours. While you want to give your children a good education without huge debts, get affordable healthcare and get a good salary in general, this guy wants to promote tax cuts, so that he doesn't have to pay for such 'useless' things like public education and healthcare. He wants to maximize his profits at the cost of common man