http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/08/more_on_bureauc.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/08/more_on_bureauc.html/comment-page-1#comment-1603 Salmo Tue, 09 Aug 2005 18:16:05 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/08/more_on_bureauc.html#comment-1603 <p>The bureaucrats are rewarded for making more paper come across their desks, because when the paper is stopped, the administration and legislature will do anything to get it going again. So, they will stop the paper and say, "I need a state car", and they will get one. Then they stop the paper and say, "I need a bigger office", and that will become a necessity. Finally, they stop the paper and say, "I need an assistant." The assistant's job is to make the paper come across his/her desk too. That is what they call progress.</p> The bureaucrats are rewarded for making more paper come across their desks, because when the paper is stopped, the administration and legislature will do anything to get it going again. So, they will stop the paper and say, “I need a state car”, and they will get one. Then they stop the paper and say, “I need a bigger office”, and that will become a necessity. Finally, they stop the paper and say, “I need an assistant.” The assistant’s job is to make the paper come across his/her desk too. That is what they call progress.

]]> http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/08/more_on_bureauc.html/comment-page-1#comment-1602 Matt Tue, 09 Aug 2005 08:44:00 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/08/more_on_bureauc.html#comment-1602 <p>The more you tell about your experiences, the happier I am that my business is about as lightly-burdened as it's possible to be in the United States without committing a crime serious enough to provoke attention. (The services we sell aren't taxable in any jurisdiction where we currently have a tax nexus or likely will have one in the future...so we only have to _pay_ taxes, rather than _collect_ them...the latter being the source of most of your misery. We also don't sell to the government.)</p> The more you tell about your experiences, the happier I am that my business is about as lightly-burdened as it’s possible to be in the United States without committing a crime serious enough to provoke attention. (The services we sell aren’t taxable in any jurisdiction where we currently have a tax nexus or likely will have one in the future…so we only have to _pay_ taxes, rather than _collect_ them…the latter being the source of most of your misery. We also don’t sell to the government.)

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