Tue
Nov 15 2011
12:40 pm
By: R. Neal
Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey is coming to town to talk to local business owners about all the government red tape that prevents them from being successful.
We presume Becky "Regulationator" Duncan Massey will be on hand to talk about all the regulation she will wipe off the books once she gets to Nashville. Ramsey's visit, a stop on his recently announced "Red Tape Tour," is hosted by the Chamber and sponsored by the NFIB.
Thus far, Ramsey's TNRedTape.com website hasn't found many red tape horror stories to share. The two or three examples he managed to collect this year are questionable.
PREVIOUSLY: Who pays for this crap?
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Wonder if he'll talk about
Wonder if he'll talk about all the red tape designed to prevent people from voting?
but .. but ...but
Corporations love complex regulations and rules. Keeps out the small fry competitors.
(link...)
During the hillside plan
During the hillside plan discussions, developers were constantly talking about how existing regulations are not enforced. TDEC and virtually every agency that is supposed to enforce environmental regulations uses fines and stop-work orders as a last result, after giving businesses every opportunity to voluntarily comply and improve their operations. Such departments are chronically underfunded and understaffed, and they've been facing cuts and belt-tightening for decades.
The GOP has been prattling on about all the waste in government for decades, and with each year's budget the knives come out and slice away another 5 or 10%. We passed the point of diminishing returns on deregulation in the previous century. Deregulation is still a good sales pitch for getting old and gullible people to the polls, but it is worthless as rational public policy. That website proves it.
Republican politics is nothing but snake oil these days.
What sort of things has TDEC
What sort of things has TDEC been doing under Haslam?
Haslam names TDEC, etc, commissioners
Can you register at the polls
Can you register at the polls on election day in Tennessee? The legislature in Maine regulated that in June this year, but voters vetoed that regulation by referendum last week.
In between those times, the Bizzarro World Replicants did what they do best. Bill Nemitz @PressHerald reports
WOW. Anyway, back to us:
Why?
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I guess you saw on the sidebar Tom Humphrey's column entitled "Opinion: Ramsey wrong on unemployment."
There, Humphrey is running an op-ed written by Kingsport-area (Democratic) attorney Bruce Shine, who is rankled by Ramsey's comments to 60 Kingsport-area business owners last week.
Sez Shine:
Apparently, Ramsey went on to report that TN's unemployment benefit "averages" $285 per week, when in fact TN's maximum benefit is just $275 per week, making it tied for fourth lowest weekly benefit in the nation.
I do hope he doesn't find out about that lavish $37 per MONTH food stamp "benefit" my 52 year-old spouse-less and unemployed friend is receiving.
(Or does some of that lavish "benefit" cover an 8.25% sales tax on groceries, leaving her $34.18 per MONTH for food? Whatever.)
Governor Ramsey.
Now, there's a phrase guaranteed to keep one from sleeping at night.
Actually, if you get food
Actually, if you get food stamps that's one time that you don't have to pay taxes on groceries. No room to celebrate, clearly, given the low-level of the benefits.
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Well, let's not point that out to Ramsey. He'll want that $2.82 per MONTH directed to someone else.