Gotta love government

[buckeye45_73]

Gov. Cuomo?s $140 Million Ad Campaign To Attract New Businesses is a Waste of Taxpayer Money | RedState

How do these people live with themselves? I dont like govenrment money, mostly because it's not even used for what they say it is.


is an outrage that Gov. Andrew Cuomo is spending up to $140 million of taxpayer money and funds received for disaster relief, to publicize the advantages of conducting business in New York. New York is indisputably one of the most unfriendly business states, with a Legislature that piles huge administrative burdens onto businesses and a Department of Taxation that is among the most aggressive in the country

Do they not think people will check the facts? New York sucks for buisness, nobody would move there....they're lucky they havent lost all their business

 

[Decus]

New York is a Europe wanna be. The title holder for most "succesful" bureaucrats however still goes to socialist-loving countries like France:

"In the past two decades, the number of legal do’s and don’ts has become so great that businessmen and economists warn that it is smothering growth just as the continent tries to dig out of its worst slump in a generation."

"A report prepared for the French government last month estimated that the country is squirming under 400,000 norms and rules, ranging from orders to school cooks on the amount of boiled egg a kindergartner can eat at lunch — half an egg — to precise requirements on how far mailboxes can stick out from the wall. The directives have cost little towns in France, such as Albaret-Sainte-Marie, more than $2.5 billion over the past four years, the report estimated."

"Applied to business with equal bureaucratic fastidiousness, such rules and regulations prove even more expensive in the private sector. They cost the 27 European Union countries an average 3.7 percent of their gross domestic product a year, more than $10 billion in the case of France, and hold back an incalculable amount of new investment, according to the OECD."

France drowning in rules and regulations, critics say - The Washington Post

 

[editec]

FRANCE has ALWAYS been a highly centralized government

Both before the revolution of 1989 and after, the bureaucracy insinuated itself into nearly every aspect of life

Here's a book that documents that failure to change

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Regime_and_the_Revolution

 

[Mr. H.]

If New York allowed hydraulic fracturing, that state would reap $140 million in annual revenues from taxes and fees alone. It would also add tens of thousands of jobs.

Funny the way Liberals calculate things.

 

[Decus]

FRANCE has ALWAYS been a highly centralized government

Both before the revolution of 1989 and after, the bureaucracy insinuated itself into nearly every aspect of life

Here's a book that documents that failure to change

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Regime_and_the_Revolution

You meant 1789 and obviously quite a bit of the credit for a centralized form of government can be given to a short but very energetic Corsican. History aside, why France still relies on a central government stems from practices like the cumul des mandats (France is the European leader in this category). France has a very patriarchal view regarding authority. This deference towards politicians fuels a political corruption that rivals countries like Greece and China (French politicians are rarely convicted of crimes). The result is a concentration of decision-making powers in the hands of a governing elite.

But back to the topic - centralized government is not the present source of France's bureaucracy - it's that the French government has become the country's single largest employer - just one more reason to fear BIG government:


"Another source of overregulation is the "mille-feuille" of government, the layers that start with municipalities, then cantons, and on to inter-communal bodies, departments, regions, parliamentary representation and ministries. Each level plays a role in imposing norms, sometimes contradictory. But with various government bodies providing 23% of the jobs in France, talk of reducing the overlap is largely ignored."

Small-town France is fast being choked by red tape and growing bureaucracy | World news | Guardian Weekly


CHART OF THE DAY: Guess Which Country Has The Highest Percentage Of Workers Employed By The Government - Business Insider

 

[TruthSeeker56]

Hey, the French are FINALLY good at SOMETHING!

Just because it's "over-regulation" doesn't mean you have to burst their bubble!