01/11/13, 07:59 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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Originally Posted by plowjockey
I was comparing (for instance) starting a sandwich shop and complaining about "regulations", when there are 35 other sandwich shops in town, that seem to be able to stay on business, plus one wouldn't expect the playing field to be exactly level with McDonalds, or Pizza Hut.
If you want to be realistic, look at what big boys, like Citgo "gets away with".
http://www.google.com/#q=citgo+pays+...w=1381&bih=679 |
Well, I get that. If everyone is operating under the same rules and same degree of enforcement - and some are prospering - then all should.
I can see the potential for some 'impartial' enforcement, but I get your point and agree.
Regulations are sometimes silly, arbitrarily enforced and downright wrong.
We knew a man who wanted to put in a wood stove store. It was in a building that had a loading dock as the front of the store, but had steps to one side. There was no place to put a handicap ramp, at least within his budget. He offered to make a path and sloping ramp to a side door. The city would not allow him to make them use 'other than the same entrance as everyone else'.
I actually don't know what he decided to do. We were full-timing then and moved on before it was settled.
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