one of the driving forces that helped us to succeed. If you own a small business and think your sign has a small impact on the amount of business your doing think again. I thought the same way until I learned my lesson. The state took our sign out of eminent domain. They did so to expand a major road and by doing so they have taken down around 30 businesses in our town. No big deal? I would agree, most of us can pick up and go and do other things but people like the landlords, senior citizens, and long term town businesses cant. The problem is that the town will have to look for where its going to get the extra tax revenue now that all of the businesses have picked up and moved to other towns. Now the town will have to impose higher taxes on its citizens. These are the same people that opposed it before, the same people that do not want big business in their town. Well if there is no big business in your town then you have to pay for that. Only difference is your on a fixed income and no matter what the increase is its going to hurt you when you get the bill. With all this in mind, we look at central America with open arms.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Buying Milk
Recently my wife and I went on a trip to Nicaragua. The opportunity that we saw there somewhat amazed us. Here in America we own a chain of restaurants. We are constantly under the gun of the town halls regulations. No signs on the street. No neon signs that say open. No a frame signs pointing to specials. No type of banner on the windows, or stenciled lettering even. There is pretty much nothing you can do to advertise on the road that is legal anymore. Only your signage. Signage should be suffice but it never is. The state took our sign down off a major road and we quickly learned that our sign was
one of the driving forces that helped us to succeed. If you own a small business and think your sign has a small impact on the amount of business your doing think again. I thought the same way until I learned my lesson. The state took our sign out of eminent domain. They did so to expand a major road and by doing so they have taken down around 30 businesses in our town. No big deal? I would agree, most of us can pick up and go and do other things but people like the landlords, senior citizens, and long term town businesses cant. The problem is that the town will have to look for where its going to get the extra tax revenue now that all of the businesses have picked up and moved to other towns. Now the town will have to impose higher taxes on its citizens. These are the same people that opposed it before, the same people that do not want big business in their town. Well if there is no big business in your town then you have to pay for that. Only difference is your on a fixed income and no matter what the increase is its going to hurt you when you get the bill. With all this in mind, we look at central America with open arms.
Watch this 7 second video and tell me what you see? This is us buying milk every morning in Leon Nicaragua. They come right to your door with a fresh bucket of milk. You buy it by the quart and you can see the woman giving it to us in our pot. No refrigeration, no stickers of how fresh it was or the expiration date. Just milk in a bucket at the door. No BS. If I wanted to be the largest milk distributor in Nicaragua I think I could be that with relatively no competition. No problem. This is just one example of how open the place is. It worked for Stew!
one of the driving forces that helped us to succeed. If you own a small business and think your sign has a small impact on the amount of business your doing think again. I thought the same way until I learned my lesson. The state took our sign out of eminent domain. They did so to expand a major road and by doing so they have taken down around 30 businesses in our town. No big deal? I would agree, most of us can pick up and go and do other things but people like the landlords, senior citizens, and long term town businesses cant. The problem is that the town will have to look for where its going to get the extra tax revenue now that all of the businesses have picked up and moved to other towns. Now the town will have to impose higher taxes on its citizens. These are the same people that opposed it before, the same people that do not want big business in their town. Well if there is no big business in your town then you have to pay for that. Only difference is your on a fixed income and no matter what the increase is its going to hurt you when you get the bill. With all this in mind, we look at central America with open arms.
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So the question then is how much regulation is enough and how much is too much? I believe we live in an over regulated society; one that charges the government with protecting us from one another and from ourselves. While our litigious society seems to be self correcting, laws following litigation to protect us from evil and keep us safe from our own propensity to blunder (my lawn mower chuts off when I walk away from it), it is delightfully refreshing to go to a place where survival rules the day. So if the milk must be brought in a bucket then so be it, and if a few people get sick along away, then buy your milk from someone else's bucket. I have no problem with that.
ReplyDeleteThere are risks however. Investments from foreign sources may not be adequately protected from government seizure in countries like Nicaragua and foreign investment may not be as welcome as we may imagine. We have given the Nicaraguans plenty of reasons to distrust us and so great care must be taken to be sure our investments their are safe. The only thing worse than an over regulated society may be one that is under regulated.
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