Comments on: Government Regulation. Oh What a Tangled Web

By: G-MAN

G-MAN — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:05:14 +0000

And home of Davy Crockett…

By: Scott M.

Scott M. — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:12:59 +0000

G-Man,he is from Tennessee..naturally intelligent!

By: G-MAN

G-MAN — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:32:26 +0000

Nice to see V has been selected to post….

By: G-MAN

G-MAN — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:31:46 +0000

G-WOMAN works at a Company X and deals with Medicaid overlords. It takes some time to figure out what they want. Then, out of the blue, they’ll start sending back billings, with no explanation, and you have to figure it out on your own what they want now. Things will run smoothly for a period of time, and then the process starts all over again. Government beaurocracies are tar pits.

By: Veruckt

Veruckt — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:59:23 +0000

Mike is correct. The government has no real concept of market realities so they frequently pass laws on a whim without considering the hoops we have to jump through and the damage it does to our business. As I’ve mentioned before the amount of rules and regulations we have from the government are so vast and complex that we have two entire departments to deal with them; one department (Compliance) to translate them and one department (Oversight) to enforce them. Wait until I start breaking out some of the real off the wall rules we have.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:06:45 +0000

Dealing with the government always means that they have you over a barrel, and the rules can be changed at a moment’s notice.

I’m thinking of the auto companies creditors who got the shaft in favor of the unions, but it can happen anywhere.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:02:48 +0000

Thanks, Nancy. Come back often!

By: nancy @ princetoncryo

nancy @ princetoncryo — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:41:08 +0000

Hi,

I really liked “we have others” part in your punch line. Though I would have never used such words for my site or blog but liked your attitude.!

By: Lars Walker

Lars Walker — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:12:07 +0000

If I recall, the income tax law for self-employed writers, a few years back (it’s been changed since, thank the Lord), required all writers to estimate their year’s earnings at the beginning of the year, and then pay that amount in quarterly payments. The average struggling free-lancer works on a piece-work basis, and hasn’t got the slightest idea what he’ll make in a particular year. But he had to make a guess.