i can buy booze at every corner. i build wineries. people be brewing up millions of gallons of wine everyday. you're trippin'.
try making and selling wine from your home.
we shall see who is trippin.
the permits and licenses needed to open a commercial winery are a huge impediment to any would-be winemaker.
it is 100% unlawful to grow tobacco for commerce in california, in fact it is a felony. you cannot get a tobacco grower's permit or license, and you may NOT plant a feild with tobacco for any purpose other than personal use.
you can however buy tobacco in it's myriad forms at any corner store.
whats your point?
you think the federal state and local laws currently are doing a bang-up job protecting you from the evils of your neighbors growing tobacco, making wine and growing dope?
ideally if i grow better tobacco or dope, or make better wine, or brew better beer or distil better whiskey, or even bake better bread i should be able to engage in trade with my neighbors for my products, but it doesnt work that way any more.
our laws do a better job of keeping us on the hamster wheel than protecting us from violence and abuses. the only sure solution is to reframe what is and is not commerce, rather than banging our heads on the legal great wall of china that has turned us all into "Consumers" rather than citizens.
farmer's markets have been redefined by many local and state laws as "non-commerce" commerce,, with exemptions and loopholes, i propose we stop making excuses for farmer's markets and roadside fruitstands and instead demand ADM IGA and RJR Nabisco prove that their operations are worth permitting.
nobody should have to drop $250k to get permits for a corner grocery while walmart and safeway get the fees and taxes waived because they bribe the right politicians.
anyone who lives in the local community should be free to open a shop, set up a produce stand in their front yard, sell home grown tobacco, or turn their kitchen into the neighborhood bakery without paying a penny in local fees licenses or permits.
people from california should not have to pay any state fees to open a business, nor should they be taxed for retail commerce
american people should be able to open a business without having to clear it with the feds first, or ask permission of the congress
those form other towns, counties states and nations should have to pay massive fees for access to those markets
so if i wanted to open a corner grocery or a semiconductor factory in sacramento i should be free from local, county, state, and federal fees licenses permits and taxes for my commerce, but if i try to open another shop in las vegas i should have to pay nevada, the county, and the city whatever fees permits and taxes they deen appropriate for the privilege of access to their market since i would be displacing the local entrepreneurs with my carpetbaggery.
of course non-persons (corporate interests partnerships and other legally created entities) being as they live NOWHERE and have no rights or powers under the constitution are free to be taxed, licensed, fee'd and permitted till the wheels fall of.
you see where im goin right?
people have rights, and those rights are abriged infringed and destroyed by every scrap of law that gets laid on them, but non-person, legally created entities have no rights, yet they are empowered by the laws which punish us.
lets flip the script. drop the income tax on people, and eliminate the loopholes on taxes for corporations partnerships and LLC's.
eliminate the stifling regulations which have done nothing but prevent upstarts from competing with the big money operations
eliminate the laws which serve only to curtail our freedoms and force us to pay the taxes that punish us but benefit the plutocrats
eliminate the power of anyone who doesnt bleed when you cut them to influence our elections
charge non-persons and non-residents the fees permits and taxes, while letting those who live within the locality and actually have a pulse do their thing.
