I agree that those are some lame regulations. I'm not convinced that removing them will cheapen the services enough to increase demand significantly. At least not to the tune of a half mil jobs a month.
If a politician wants to try and remove those regulations, then that's fine. A president would have a difficult time doing it because, as you mentioned, we're not just talking federal regulations but state as well. So when a president says that his plan for creating jobs is to simply remove those regulations, I need to see some proof. Show me some kind of statistic that shows millions of people can't wait to log their property and upgrade their houses and the only thing stopping them is the cost of the permits.
Here's an alternative: how about a marriage of right wing and left wing ideas. On one hand, we'll do some deregulation and on the other hand we'll tear up our free trade agreements and go back to tariffs.
I'm a Ron Paul guy. Ending the fed and the drug war is reason enough for me to vote for him, but my biggest problem with him is that he says he wants to return to our founding ideals yet he also has bought into this theory of free markets. Our founders did not have a free market economy as defined by Adam Smith or Milton Friedman. They used tariffs for revenue. I don't know how one can pay lip service to the founders and then shit all over the way they ran their economy. On top of that their is very little real world evidence to prove that those kinds of free market policies will do what they're suppose to do. It was tried in Chile, it failed miserable for most people (I think it worked out OK for the wealthy). Argentina tried it and it collapsed the entire economy, even those rich motherfuckers lost their asses. It's an experiment we've been slowly moving closer to over the last thirty years and I think it's time we reverse course and go back to what worked.
those regulations absoulutely crush small business. as a small builder of homes, i can tell you the profit margins on building are so tight, you cant imagine.
when you quote a person 28K to remodel a basement, they get a permit, which i recomended against, theeir final cost was 48K. once the different inspectors regulators got in there, they made them replace septic systems, mechanical rooms, and a whole bunch of other things. the building inspectors shut their project down 3 times, nothing to do with me, all to do with demanding more things be done.
the project nearly bankrupted the family and my business, with no gain to them whatsoever. if they had known another 20k in cost was coming, they wouldnt have done the project.
i can assure you that they told friends and family and that changed their minds on remodeling.
do you know that building inspectors will come to a job sight and inspect your extension chords? yes, there is a color coding system that must be changed monthly. if not, you get fined. seriously, no joke.
talk to someone you kow who has actually built a house and had to comply with building department codes.
i build, i have a million stories.
a freidn of mine built a 250k house. on the day of closing they wouldnt give him a certificate of occupancy because, hold onto your hat, he had the wrong lightbulbs and fixtures in his house CLOSETS. cost him 2 days work and 500 bucks to get them changed. he had to change a toilet because the one he used had the flushing handle closer than 12 inches from the wall. yep, thats a new plumbing rule. if your toilet handle is closer than 12 to the wall, you have to get a toilet that flushes from the other side.
dont get me started about coal mining. a very good friend has a quarry crusher operation. pretty large emplys about 20 locals who have worked there forever. thay are completely removing a mountain on about 100 acres. this land is loaded with coal and sandstone. they cant mine the coal. when they dig the coal, they are required by law to dump it and cover it with dirt. no bullshit.
so now we could be getting coal for 50 bucks a ton, we have to pay 165 a ton.
those are some job killing regs bigtime
