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Originally Posted by Minte
You read about tax relief. Have you ever gone through an unannounced OSHA visit? Another form of tax for business. Our last OSHA visit cost us $5,750. for two items. An airhose that had the wrong nozzle and an electrical box that had knockouts.
How about a DNR permit. For our recent addition we had less than 1/2 an acre of land that fell into the wetlands category because of indigenous plant life. Not standing water. The fees so far including mitigation have been over $20,000. Then there is an impact fee for simply hooking up to the water main for the plants sprinkler system. That is 22,000.
These are all taxes on business that no one reads about on Politco. Yet they do exist.
We pay annual fees to at least 6 different state and federal agencies.
Should I go on?
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Osha is one of the reasons I got out of construction. On the other hand I have a foster brother who is blind because a hydraulic hose broke off and hit him in the face. He's collected something like millions in social security and disability because his employer was negligent and he was working in a no-sue state.
So, which is better - your 5k or his millions?
Why are you bitching about taxes in one breath, and then about regulations in the other - why not be consistent and be politically active about regulations, and do your best to get them looked at with a closer eye by politicians and media?
In a libertarian society you could go ahead and fuck up your wetlands - and then be sued by everybody who had an interest downstream. Which is cheaper - your payment of fees, or dozens or hundreds of lawsuits?
If you want to be able to destroy your wetlands, then support population control. We can't keep packing more and more people into the same space, and pretending that when you damage something in that space that it has no effect on the crowding neighbors.