Lessen stupid regulation. I know, that sounds kind of weird, let me explain.
There are a gigantic number regulations on the books that inhibit the start of small businesses.
I own a small hotel in Leavenworth, WA and we wanted to serve a fresh fruit salad on our breakfast buffet. The health department said ver quickly, oh no, no, no, Mr. Mulders, to do that you need a commercial kitchen. Me: what would that entail?
They: You need FIVE sinks (in a kitchen of 90 square feet.
I know, insane. They insisted on this, even when we explained exactly how we vwere going to do it. $45,000 later with a nice new kitchen, we are now serving fruit salad.
These regulations are generally set by local and state wide agencies who have been tasked with regulating industries. It’s these netities that need to be reigned in. Federal regulations are mostly an issue for interstate business and mostly larger businesses with exceptions, of course.
To encourage entrepreneurial spirirt we need to diminish the power these entities have and severly curtail their ability to put in stupid regulations. I understand the government wanting things to be safe, but living is inherently risky and some risk should be assumed.
Here is another doozy we see in WA state all the time. It’s a regulation that you HAVE to print on your menu that indercooked eggs can make you sick. Really? What fool came up with that doozy. Anyway, you catch my drift.
Just to make sure, I am a liberal and believe in government oversight. Just not in matters that pose minimal risk. I eat over easy eggs almost every day and have done so for almost 60 years and have never been sick from eggs. I routinely eat raw cookie dough and NEVER cook my hamburgers all the way (they are god awful when cooked all the way) and I’ve had food poisening once in my life - it was pretty bad, I’ll agree to that.