Want to start a business???

Why start a business and hire people? Well here is an introductory list of those things that help you focus on your goals:

Start here: http://www.dol.gov/compliance/

Today, there are over 180 different areas of compliance regulations and Laws including (but not limited to) the following general areas:

-o- Workplace Poster Requirements
-o- Wage and Hour Labor Standards Compliance
-o- COBRA Coverage, Compliance, and Continuation Requirements
-o- Retirement Plans/Benefits Compliance Regulations (ERISA)
-o- OSHA 75 Page Handbook on Compliance Issues, Safety Self-Checklists
-o- Equal Employment Opportunity Laws, Rules, and Compliance Guidelines
-o- Fair Labor Standards and Regulations Compliance
-o- Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act
-o- Americans with Disabilities Act (hundreds of pages of specific regulations and laws that translate into hundreds and thousands of pages of legal decisions and regional guidance based on DOJ review, being updated daily as new judicial review and decisions are made)
-o- Family and Medical Leave Act Compliance Regulations
-o- Hiring Compliance Regulations
-o- Terminations Compliance Regulations
-o- Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA)
-o- Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (MSPA)
-o- The Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 503
-o- Sarbanes Oxley and Generally Accepted Accounting Procedures, Handling Personnel and Personnel Information Protections, Regulations and Procedures for Recording, Outlining Policies/Procedures
-o- HIPPAA Compliance and Procedures
-o- Environmental Regulatory Flexibility Act/Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act (RFA/SBREFA)
-o- EPA Environmental Test Methods and Guidelines
-o- State-by-State EPA Environmental Test Methods and Guidelines
-o- Regulations for Maintaining Environmental Compliance Monitoring
-o- Recording EPA Compliance Issues for the ECHO Database
…and on and on and effing on ad nauseum….

At the Federal level there are almost 100,000 separate regulations and rules that can be violated resulting in penalties. Some of these regulations are used by private individuals to bring fallacious lawsuits against small businesses where a business is nickel-ed and dimed $10,000 to $20,000 a pop and can lose over $100,000 fighting each and every allegation. Data as recent as 2005 showed that businesses were expending almost $9,000 per year per employee for federal compliance in companies of less than 20 employees. Today, it is astronomically higher than that.

At this point, you have not begun to do what you intended to focus on in your business. Obama has done everything possible to make sure that nobody will have their own business.

(added 9/26/2012)

Now 55% of businesses say they would not have started their business today under Obama. Further, 69% regulatory policies are doing damage to their business. "Forty-six percent of the respondents identified as Republicans, 16 percent as independent and 36 percent as Democrat."

Yet, liberals scream on about everything being Bush's fault. Obama was elected because he was black. Obama was given a Congress in his pocket for two years. And, OBAMA FAILED! But, do not take my word for it...

(by Dr. James David Manning)