4 May 2014 2:30 pm
This doesn't make any sense Cannon. In all seriousness, you're blaming a public institution for controlling the ability of the economy to produce something. That isn't Capitalism. I agree with what you're saying, but I don't agree with you definition.Cannonpointer » 02 May 2014 10:35 pm » wrote:Instead of definitions, let's talk functions.
Look at the materials required to construct a solar panel.They cost about $200.00. Add a day's labor to that $200.00, and you've got yourself a solar panel. You could sell iffor $400.00, and you've got yourself a job. So, why isn't anyone doing it?We live in a free enterprise economy, do we not?
Not.
We live in a capitalist economy, which games the system to PREVENT free enterprise. You are not allowed to sell your solar panels without a stamp of approval from Underwriters Laboratories -and they are gate keepers for Wall Street.The cost of shaking hands with UL prevents free enterprisers from operating in that market -and the same thing is going on in almost every market. The little guy is locked out by the engineered and manipulated expense of sitting at the table - locked out. Only Wall Streeters, using OTHER PEOPLES' capital, can afford to play in the game.
We need to go back to a free enterprise economy, where the little guy does not face unsurmountable obstacles to starting a small business.
I'll tell you this though, a friend of my Dad's owns a number of car-washes around Houston. He hired a book-keeper to take care of his finances several years back, and at one point a couple years ago that book-keeper made a mistake that had tax implications. The guy wound up having to pay penalties. Here's the thing though, if the guy had hired a CPA then my Dad's friend wouldn't have been on the hook for the mistake and the CPA would have, and that's exactly what he uses.
Is it not insane that government gives a subgroup of what are essentially accountants this special power so that they can charge more???