From a businessman friend who lives in one of those mega-governed states. He sent the following this morning with permission to blog it:<\/p>\n
\nOne of my clients is developing alternative energy technology. They actually have a pretty good idea, one that might work and be profitable. <\/p>\n
They built a proof of concept, small-sized version of their product. Now it is time to build a larger one. I suggested they look at a nearby industrial park. It has the power, the space, and a landlord with lots of free space to rent.<\/p>\n
Everything looked good until they asked about putting up a temporary metal building in the largely unutilized rear parking lot. They need a fair bit of space for the demonstration.<\/p>\n
Landlord\u2019s face fell. \u201cI\u2019m sorry, the town won\u2019t allow that. The town requires 4 parking spaces per thousand square feet. We have less than 1 per thousand square feet. They harass us constantly about this. I\u2019ve been paying my maintenance staff to drive around three times a day counting the empty parking spaces, and showing the town that there is never a problem, but they won\u2019t budge. There\u2019s no way they would let us take even more spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n
So this company will go somewhere else. They certainly won\u2019t move to this town, very possibly not anywhere in this state.<\/p>\n
This represents the loss of 35 jobs, today. If the demonstration is successful and they grow and prosper, there is literally no telling how big the firm might become. <\/p>\n
But one thing we do know is that busybody, unaccountable parking Nazis have driven 35 jobs out of this town, never to return.<\/p>\n
People wonder what is wrong with the economy and why unemployment is so high. This silly little story won\u2019t make any newspapers. The company has better things to do than literally fight city hall. The landlord won\u2019t rent 20,000 square feet of space, but also has no desire to provoke the Nazis still further by pointing out the consequences of their folly. <\/p>\n
Unless and until we as a nation start throwing government out of every aspect of industry and commerce, this sort of job-killing insanity will continue. There are reasons plants are going up in China, India, and elsewhere while they are being shuttered here. Take the parking story and multiply it by 100,000 times and you begin to see the magnitude of this problem. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From a businessman friend who lives in one of those mega-governed states. He sent the following this morning with permission to blog it: One of my clients is developing alternative energy technology. They actually have a pretty good idea, one that might work and be profitable. They built a proof of concept, small-sized version of their product. Now it is time to build a larger one. I suggested they look at a nearby industrial park. It has the power, the space, and a landlord with lots of free space to rent. Everything looked good until they asked about putting up…<\/p>\n