----- Original Message -----
From: Len Cranford
To: apopeeso@comcast.net ; pyrigenes
; Chris
D.
Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2015 5:59 AM
Subject: Hillary, Make sure the Slaves Don`t Escape;
{Ah, but with ObamaCare and heavy
Taxes - add Social Security - soon to be a generational 'dead horse', the
motive to ESCAPE the "System" becomes stronger. But if the
"Employee - Slaves" Escape then Thieving Liberalism will lose
it`s revenue. Just what I`ve been saying. And there are ways to
escape those College Ed. Loans too. Corporations and Government shoot
themselves in the feet by destroying their own consumers! L.}
[And KILL
the Muslims and Jews before they repeat this sort of thing; ....Ah, they
are already doing it.]
Oh c'mon.
Hillary
made a big deal about how Uber and similar firms are all about improperly
classifying employees as contractors, and that she wants to put a stop to it.
Let's be
clear here folks: The only "big successes" in business over the last decade have been found in various forms of
regulatory arbitrage and cost-shifting -- not innovation.
Let's list a
few:
Netflix: Shoving off network distribution costs on
ISPs, then screaming to get the pushback made illegal in formal terms.
Uber and
Lyft: Ignoring taxi medallion fees (paid to
the municipalities where they operate by taxi firms) and turning operators into
contractors, despite controlling virtually every function of the driver's
operation including the price charged to the consumer.
Tesla: Tax farming, literally -- the company
would not
exist without
EV federal tax credits both to the firm directly and to its customers.
AirBnB: Hotel tax and the various life-safety and
inspection processes that are evaded anyone? To be fair AirBnB has
started collecting hotel taxes in somejurisdictions, but it remains
evasive of short-term rental bans that are in place in a lot of jurisdictions.
Amazon: While the company has been forced into
local and state tax compliance their "Nexus" evasion by setting up
distribution centers through allegedly "independent" firms (and which
eventually started drawing a phalanx of lawsuits that the firm bought off by agreeing
to collect tax) is the stuff of business legend. Absent that there's
question as to whether the firm would even exist in today's world, as their
pricing sure wouldn't have been anywhere near as competitive.
Virtually
the entire pharmaceutical industry: The list of people able to pay $100,000
for a Hepatitis drug approaches zero. Only through forced payment via
Obamacare and similar can such a pricing system exist. It gets even worse
when you look at chronic drugs that in some cases can exceed a half-million
dollars annually for life. Literally nobody, other than the
handful of billionaires, could pay such a sum. There is no possible way for any of those
business models to exist absent regulatory arbitrage.
Can you show me a
"big innovative" firm that hasn't revolved
around finding some way to cheat? I'm not talking about a new process or
idea; that's what innovation is. No, I'm talking about cheating --
redefining employees as contractors, shoving off your costs on other people (not finding ways to grossly reduce the
expense of doing something), evading various regulations through your own creative
interpretation of what the law is (and hoping you get big enough fast
enough that at worst you get sued instead of your executives being indicted)
and grabbing "tax credits" from everyone who funds
the government via paying taxes.
Good luck with
that.
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