Virginia oyster farmers being zoned out of existance

[Anti Federalist]

Seen this a million times before.

Asshole trendy lawyer and his third wife gushes over the "quaint seaside town".

Until wifey gets a whiff of some three day old lobster bait steaming in the sun.

Then it's not so quaint anymore.

Trendy lawyer gets himself and bunch of his asshole buddies elected to the town board and zones stinky fish dock out of business.


Virginia oyster farmers being zoned out of existance

http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/seaford-oyster-company/

YORKTOWN, VA — A county zoning board’s politically-motivated rezoning efforts are endangering local aqua-farmers in their ability to use their own property to raise crops and produce food. Just minutes from the spot where American revolutionaries accepted the surrender of the British in 1781, one American oyster farmer is now forced to fight to keep the imperiled “right to farm.”

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York County Rezoning Leaves Oyster Farmers Out at Sea

The York County Board of Supervisors is threatening the livelihood of oyster farmers. Zoning is a popular way for counties to control where and how things are bought and sold. Zoning ordinances can often dictate whether people can work, live and play in the same neighborhood. The details of zoning are excruciatingly complex leaving people unable to respond in a timely manner. The enforcement of zoning regulations involves heavy fines and/or incarceration. In short, zoning has been a terrific way for counties to control people’s lives.

Such is the story of oyster farmer Anthony Bavuso and his family. After years of working corporate and office jobs, Bavuso and his wife took a short hiatus from the day-to-day drudgery and returned with a new perspective: they wanted to become contributors to the economy of raw materials by producing something that people needed.

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[2young2vote]

Cities and states are often more intrusive into your daily life than the federal government.

This guy's story his too typical, unfortunately. When liberals wonder why there is no innovation, poor economic growth, and lack of jobs available, just point to this article and say "THAT is why the economy is crap, why the poor are getting poorer while the rich are getting richer, and mobility in our economy is getting more difficult by the day."

For example, I knew a guy who made really good homemade ice cream by hand. He picked the wild mint leaves himself to make mint ice cream, and other flavors were just as genuine. He had a little cart and he would go to the farmer's market every friday between 6AM and 12PM (the morning, when nobody is buying ice cream), then sit on the sidewalk in front of this fathers store and sell ice cream there. The city prevented him from selling it at any other location, the state prevented him from selling it wholesale, and the federal government stole X% of his profits.

At my families business we aren't allowed to put picnic tables on our front lawn in front the store, so people end up sitting in the grass (supposedly its too close to the road). We aren't allowed to have a flag flying on our flag pole unless it is a federal/state/city/university flag. One time my dad put a small (2'x2') sign on the outside of the store's front glass window and we had someone from the city at our doorstep in less than 2 hours telling us to move it inside. Then, of course, there are all the the things we have to do for the federal government because of the ADA. Not to mention the dozen+ hours a week we have to spend on government related requirements. I'm currently in communication with the state because at one point we owed them money even though we didn't, so i sent them a copy of the cancelled check, called them back a few weeks later and all of a sudden we had a $500 credit, then we just got a letter a few days ago saying we still owe them money for that same BS. Its never ending.

Then, on the other hand, my dad knew a guy who grew up in the 40s selling ice cream treats outside baseball stadiums and concerts and all that. He just rode his bike around the city and sold his wares, trying to make a living for himself. Everything that guy did back then would be illegal now. Now you need permits to sell in certain areas, at certain times, in health-department approved ways.

Government is the bane of prosperity and growth.

[jclay2]

Cities and states are often more intrusive into your daily life than the federal government.

This guy's story his too typical, unfortunately. When liberals wonder why there is no innovation, poor economic growth, and lack of jobs available, just point to this article and say "THAT is why the economy is crap, why the poor are getting poorer while the rich are getting richer, and mobility in our economy is getting more difficult by the day."

For example, I knew a guy who made really good homemade ice cream by hand. He picked the wild mint leaves himself to make mint ice cream, and other flavors were just as genuine. He had a little cart and he would go to the farmer's market every friday between 6AM and 12PM (the morning, when nobody is buying ice cream), then sit on the sidewalk in front of this fathers store and sell ice cream there. The city prevented him from selling it at any other location, the state prevented him from selling it wholesale, and the federal government stole X% of his profits.

At my families business we aren't allowed to put picnic tables on our front lawn in front the store, so people end up sitting in the grass (supposedly its too close to the road). We aren't allowed to have a flag flying on our flag pole unless it is a federal/state/city/university flag. One time my dad put a small (2'x2') sign on the outside of the store's front glass window and we had someone from the city at our doorstep in less than 2 hours telling us to move it inside. Then, of course, there are all the the things we have to do for the federal government because of the ADA. Not to mention the dozen+ hours a week we have to spend on government related requirements. I'm currently in communication with the state because at one point we owed them money even though we didn't, so i sent them a copy of the cancelled check, called them back a few weeks later and all of a sudden we had a $500 credit, then we just got a letter a few days ago saying we still owe them money for that same BS. Its never ending.

Then, on the other hand, my dad knew a guy who grew up in the 40s selling ice cream treats outside baseball stadiums and concerts and all that. He just rode his bike around the city and sold his wares, trying to make a living for himself. Everything that guy did back then would be illegal now. Now you need permits to sell in certain areas, at certain times, in health-department approved ways.

Government is the bane of prosperity and growth.

And all those added costs show up in higher prices for consumers and less mobility to start new businesses. And this is all before you start factoring in direct taxes and inflation. If our government was put in its rightful place, we would be living like kings. 1-2 day work weeks would be standard across the board. If anyone doubts this, consider this mind expirement:

Assume that the cost of massive government intervention has had the effect of on a yearly basis reducing real growth in personal income by 2% for the past 70 years. The net effect of this missed growth opportunity is that every person's real income would be increased by a factor of 4! If you work a 50k/year job, you in theory should be making the equivalent of 200k.

In fact, this would make it so incredibly easy to accumulate wealth that most people could probably retire after less than 10 years of full time work.

[2young2vote]

And all those added costs show up in higher prices for consumers and less mobility to start new businesses. And this is all before you start factoring in direct taxes and inflation. If our government was put in its rightful place, we would be living like kings. 1-2 day work weeks would be standard across the board. If anyone doubts this, consider this mind expirement:

Assume that the cost of massive government intervention has had the effect of on a yearly basis reducing real growth in personal income by 2% for the past 70 years. The net effect of this missed growth opportunity is that every person's real income would be increased by a factor of 4! If you work a 50k/year job, you in theory should be making the equivalent of 200k.

In fact, this would make it so incredibly easy to accumulate wealth that most people could probably retire after less than 10 years of full time work.

Do you have a link to prove these numbers? They seem a bit far-fetched.

[Anti Federalist]

Do you have a link to prove these numbers? They seem a bit far-fetched.

The Cost Of Government Regulation: $1.75 Trillion

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/cost-government-regulation-175-trillion

From Bill Buckler, author of The Privateer

The Cost Of "Intervention"

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is a small “think tank” in Washington DC which puts out an annual report called: “Ten Thousand Commandments”. The report deals with the regulatory agencies of the US federal government and the cost of the regulations they continually introduce - and enforce. This report would be typical of the regulatory function of pretty well every government in the world.

In all interventionist economies, regulations are not set by the “lawmakers”. The “lawmakers” merely pass the laws, their enforcement is left to the various bureaucratic departments of government. And in order to “enforce” the laws, the bureaucrats see it as their function to impose regulations - countless thousands of them. The cost of complying with these regulations is met by those being regulated. It does NOT show up in the annual budgets (funded or unfunded) of the government.

In their Ten Thousand Commandments 2012 report which was released in June, the CEI estimates the cost of US government regulation at $US 1.75 TRILLION. That is just under half (48 percent) of the budget of the federal government. It is almost ten times the total of all corporate taxes collected and almost double the total collected from individual income taxes. It is also one-third higher than the total of all pre-tax corporate profits. It is the hidden cost of doing business in an interventionist economy. The fact that the cost of complying with these regulations is substantially higher than the total of corporate profits is a stark illustration of the end result of economic intervention. That end result is capital consumption.

In the US, the federal government lists its regulations in what is called the Code of Federal Regulations. These rules of the economic “game” cover 169,000 pages and more than ten new ones are added every day, seven days a week and 365 days a year. In 2011, the US Congress passed a total of 81 new “laws” while government agencies issued 3,807 new regulations. As the CEI points out, if there ever was an example of government without the consent of ANYONE - this is it.