Greenspan Destroys Deregulation in 16 Seconds

"Anyone should be able to go to Barnes and Noble, pick up "surgery for dummies" and run a hospital out of their home?"

YES! Absolutely yes. Why shouldn't they? I wouldn't use them as a doctor, I'm sure you wouldn't either. But if people choose voluntarily to seek medical treatment from Dr. "surgery for dummies", that's their business AND NOT YOURS! And certainly not the governments.

Jesus Fucking Christ...

Talking to you has officially become absofuckinglutely pointless.

Licensing, zoning, and consumer safety exists for a reason. What it sounds like to me is you want to bitch and moan about how unfair it is that you have all this responsibility to uphold what with licensing, where to set up shop, and the fact that customers shouldn't have to worry about doing business with you.

It's called "law" and you want to throw it out the window.

Face/palm

Do you have to take classes to be this stupid, or does it just come naturally nosferotica1?

You didn't address my point that people have the right to start any business practice they so choose, and people have every right to choose to be a customer of that business or not. Why is that such an infuriating concept to you?

P.S. leaving rude, and angry comments doesn't change anyone's mind. Fail.

People already have that. I don't have to address something that "doesn't exist."

God forbid they should have to legitimize their practice. The only infuriating concept here is the fact that people shouldn't have to meet any sort of requirements to start businesses and the private sector should be allowed to just fly around by the seat of their pants.

Besides, could I really change your mind? Does anyone here REALLY change anyone's mind?

No.

No. Minds are changed all the time through CIVIL discourse. Not flame wars.

"legitimize their practice"??? The government is a legitimizer of activities now? Doesn't sound like you believe very strongly in freedom of choice for the individual. People should not have to meet ANY requirements to start a business. It's really quite a simple concept to understand. If your business is of low quality, people won't shop their and you'll go bust. No government regulators required.

Of course it does. Remember the 3 branches of Government?

Judicial - Interprets the laws
Legislative - writes the laws
Executive - signs into law.

So when the government legitimizes practice, they do it in accordance to the law.

So a legitimate practice is one operating legally. How easy would it be to have illegal fronts if any Tom, Dick, and Harry could just set up shop and run anything the want under such a facade.

Government regulation became necessary.

"So when the government legitimizes practice, they do it in accordance to the law."

I agree, all I'm saying is their should be a lot less laws.

"illegal fronts if any Tom, Dick, and Harry could just set up shop and run anything the want under such a facade."

That's a very convoluted sentence, but I am of the opinion that Tom, Dick, and Harry should be allowed to set up and run any business they so choose with limited intrusion from the state.

And there's a reason why there is so much state intrusion.

All I'm saying.

State intrusion exists primarily on behalf of big business, not to restrain them actually. Established businesses like more regulations because it keeps out competitors . The government is very good at cutting off alternatives, and big business is very good at lobbying the government to do so.

That too.

Of course there's as much con as to the pro.