Is it bad luck? I have been sued by Microsoft for $2 million and survived. Thrived. I have been arrested for unlawful restraint and breach of peace while only two people were present, no witnesses against me, we are on video surveillance, and the person accusing me is the girlfriend of a cop killer. I have been harrassed for months about a bill from ATT that was paid on time, and ATT denied or did not know they were responsible for the harrassment. I am audited by the State of Connecticut for complaince with Sales Tax laws and they begin by just expecting I will waive the Statute of Limitations for their audit. Oh, they say, everyone else does it. The incompetance and malice of authority is striking.
I worked for the State of Connecticut for 16 years, and many of the people I worked with seem to think their job is to be a jerk. I have a commercial driver’s license and have to have physical every two years. This year DMV threatened to cancel my license after one year, but try to get someone on the phone. She only would identify herself as Jane and would not listen to the fact that they were wrong, would not tell me how to prove their error to them, and finished with “we are done here” as she hung up the phone. I wrote a letter addressed to the supervisor. Do you suppose that will help?
There is no end to the examples we can all think of. And we all know the solution is to simplify. A physical after two years? An arrest when it is one person’s word against the other’s? One must pay sales tax on one’s second car seat, even though the store does not charge you sales tax no matter how many you buy. Presumably you must send in a check.
The answer is simple. Yes, it is simplify. Put an end to mandatory everything. We must buy all matter of silly stuff to comply with silly laws to pay the salaries of our law makers. Is that good for the economy?
I guess we will find out. The first third world country that can reasonably control corruption of the government will have such an advantage over the US that it will overtake our economy like, well, like China. Like India. Like Brazil. Soon even Mexico might be able to, say, improve its infrastructure without first sending permits and insurances to every bureaucrat and inspector from dog catcher to president. They might be able to get something done while we concentrate on paying the salaries of government agents and sending profits to insurance companies and lawyers. We are the ones with the problem.
Don’t get me wrong, I believe we had a good economy for a while. It went on quite too long because of
