Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "World's Worst Regulations!" video.

They are listening, just not to industry professionals. The incentive for an elected official is to have a strong opinion on a list of hot button issues that a lot of voters pretend to care about. Ergo, there's a lot of arguments in Congress about tax burdens, but rarely do they discuss the obscenely complicated tax law that is a product of centuries of Congress arguing about tax burdens.
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That is because you have no idea where the expression land of the free comes from
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@bobtuiliga8691 Easier to make new small rule than remove old rules.
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A Russian I met said they have an opposite problem where they hate paperwork so they have no regs that aren't essential. It is possible to walk into a bank, tell them you're a millionaire, and walk out with a credit card. But the effect of this is banking and investment is super small scale, super profitable, and bubbles are rare because the only people asking for loans are the ones that really need it.
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Apparently not
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That's just math. Fat people get health problems. End of story.
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@zee4265 Don't be silly
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@Opeandaway That's as retarded as Hillary trying to regulate school food. Her idiot cheerleader mind couldn't comprehend that teenaged boys eat more than any adult.
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Shut up
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There are new rules about that, but the main issue is almost all companies failed to file because most registered LLCs are either single-digit ventures with no admin or are simply defunct. No one is expecting your local co-op to disclose direct interest in your neighbor Bob's farm.
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We want to discourage drinking though
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@bobtuiliga8691 Hard to say one way or another if the tax reduces drinking because most drinkers are the sons and wives of drinkers. And if you use beer tax to pay for rehab it can become REAL difficult to say
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@Rockall57 Lying isn't necessary in this instance
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@mylex817 No. The lack of rules applies to the government too because they can intervene in any matter at any time. I.E. When Russian cops say come you come because most incidents of alleged "police brutality" aren't just dismissed by the courts without trial, they're actively encouraged by the public who trusts the average cop to beat up bad men.
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I can confirm from experience that certain Federal regulations have virtually zero enforcement. You see all those semis on the highway? They are all routinely breaking the regs and simply falsify Uncle Sam's paperwork. Likewise most car and airplane mechanics never even open the manual unless they have a problem they can't fix themselves and often use other than prescribed methods and materials just because it works. Also, traffic laws are made for cars and there are norms in motorcycles that are considered bad to ignore while there are traffic laws that are widely ignored by motorcycles for safety reasons. I.E. it is safer for a motorcycle to ride the shoulder rather than wait to get squashed in stop and go traffic.
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@SusCalvin There's one internet legend about a cop in court who said that he saw the permit but it was not displayed in the driver's side windshield as required so he wrote a ticket. The owner said it was a motorcycle and had neither driver's side nor windshield. The judge sighed, lectured the cop that the spirit and letter of the law do not always align, then dropped the ticket.
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Weird libel. No bribes are involved in food inspections, it just needs done. I am aware of one case in Germany of what you describe. Remember that hoopla over guns that only fire when authorized users hold them? That started with a German firm Armatrix that had a good proof-of-concept device that was only useable by niche markets and few people wanted the gun because it was overpriced, and despite having no factory whatsoever or means to get one they were already lobbying the German government to make them mandatory. Gunsmiths all over the world regarded this as extortion and the scheme failed so spectacularly that no one wants to make smart guns anymore because New Jersey has a law on the books that makes them mandatory once declared "feasible."
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Just as often the over way around
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@lv4077 Depends what kind of bureaucrat. I.E. Corporate compliance officers make their own rules, but ignore government rules.
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@j3i2i2yl7 Come on, the only one fixated on campaign contributions is you. Nah, politicians do spend a large portion of their careers fretting over the next election, but most of that time is spent organizing campaigns and trying to get their name in the news. Donations buy ads no one watches, but sensationalized statements mean idiot reporters will do the work for you.
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@jonnelson9760 Not necessarily criminal, criminals usually complain about the enforcers and not always the law themselves. I think what you mean to say is people complain about stuff that physically prevents them from doing dangerous/malicious stuff they want to do. Like Oceangate where the CEO got himself killed breaking all the rules that were in place to protect him.
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@chickenfishhybrid44 yes, those are people who aren't in effected industries and don't know how much paperwork is involved
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Japan is really case in point because apparently they have a lot of rules that are straight up ignored. At one point their Congress was simply powerless because literally none of the ruling clans did what they said, but at another point their finance ministry had so much control over the economy that they stopped a crash by simply telling big players to stop selling (the recession that followed happened anyway, though).
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Shut up
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