Letter to editor triggered by tree surgeon’s entrepreneurial experience

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Quick comments triggered by the tree surgeon’s entrepreneurial experience:

May Jim prevail against the odds, as David against Goliath, bootstrapping or getting help from friends and proper capitalists, not taxes or the more costly government debt owed by taxpayers.

Taxpayer OPM, the ultimate in “other people’s money,” IS like “opium.” This potent addictive lure used by politicians and their cliques traps, clutters, and lulls businesses into false security at best; much better to prove business-viability by finding real investors and especially customers, who of their own free will and choice, supply sufficient fuel to prosper the enterprise. Leave the tax money in the hands of prospective investors and customers to make their choices and learn from them. If your resourcefulness cannot get people to freely choose to invest and especially to purchase what you offer, find something better to do.

True processes are sensible, efficient, low cost, high quality, ever improving to provide sufficient return to customers, investors, and other stakeholders who make free will choices to participate. Truth be told, governments co-opt the term “process” as a euphemism to camouflage bureaucracy which inherently coerces, enslaves, bullies, and abuses personal agency, choice and accountability.

Permit requirements and command & control standards serve big companies well as barriers to entry to impede the competitive innovations of new ventures. Big companies become addicted to taxpayer OPM as they cozy up to government monopoly power behind artificial, unnatural barriers to entry, including costly government-permitting bureaucracies. The $41K for permits is a hugely exorbitant, euphemistic tax to support government and related workers in San Jose, CA. Money wasted on this barrier to entry would have been better spent getting cash flow from customers. But at least other regions of the country and world benefit from this unnecessarily high cost of doing business in California.

How tragic to have adversarial taxpayer-draining government burden the pursuit of enterprise dedicated to meeting real needs of customers, investors, and employees. Thank you to courageous entrepreneurs whose fortitude in spite of sappy impediments of government makes so many good things possible. May we see the time when decentralized, Internet-facilitated enlightenment throws off the enslaving costly plague of excess government before the empire strikes back with more compulsory means – taxes.

Start by letting social/education entrepreneurs better serve teachers and local principals with solutions for top-down elimination of tax-funded education bureaucracies. Education consumers can finally pay teachers what they merit with funds available from the complete elimination of federal, state, and school district level bureaucracies, everything from superintendents and their supporting staff and above.