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business closing
Milwaukee, Wisconsin makes it extremely difficult to close a business. You have to buy a license that could cost up to $550. Also you have to pay a 2 dollar charge for every 1,000 dollars worth of inventory you have in your store. -
getting arrested for collecting rain water
A rural Oregon man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 days in jail and over $1,500 in fines because he had three reservoirs on his property to collect and use rainwater. they claimed that he did not have the correct lincinses to do so. -
Santa Monica, California has decided to make it illegal to smoke inside your own home.
city council sought to expand that prohibition and voted 4-2 to ban smoking for all new tenants of apartments and condos inside their residences -
feeding the homeless
all over the United States cities are actually banning feeding the homeless. Philadelphia recently banned outdoor feeding of people in city parks. Denver has begun enforcing a ban on eating and sleeping on property without permission. -
gas
In August, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, in tandem with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), finalized new fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks for model years 2017–2025. The rules require a whopping average fuel economy of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. Sticker prices will jump by hundreds of dollars. Regulators argue that the fuel savings will make up these costs. Whether consumers want to make such a trade-off does not matter -
health insurance
The HHS on February 15 finalized its mandate that all health insurance plans include coverage for abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization procedures, and contraceptives.[5] The mandate allows no exceptions for church-affiliated schools, hospitals, and charities whose religious principles conflict with the mandate. -
"cleaned"
Regulators admit that these Department of Energy rules will do little to improve the environment. Rather, proponents claim they will save consumers money. But they will also increase the price of dishwashers, and only about one in six consumers will keep his or her dishwasher long enough to recoup the cost. Whatever the numbers, this is a call that consumers—rather than Washington—should be making -
lemonade stands
Bureaucratic busybodies in Bethesda, Maryland, have shut down children's lemonade stands because the enterprising young moppets did not have trading licenses. -
blog in philly
In the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania it is illegal to make even a single dollar from a blog unless you buy a $300 business license. The city government even went after one poor woman who had earned only $11 from her blog over the past two years. -
cats and dogs
In New Jersey, if you are driving around with an "unrestrained" cat or dog in your vehicle you can be fined up to $1000 for each offense. -
energy cost
- Increasing Energy Costs: EPA Emissions Standards
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trash in miami beach
Once the ordinance goes in effect in July 2013, people who don't recycle would be fined $350 for their first violation, $500 for their second violation and $1,000 for the third violation. -
school lunch
The U.S. Department of Agriculture in January published stringent nutrition standards for school lunch and breakfast programs. More than 98,000 elementary and secondary schools are affected—at a cost exceeding $3.4 billion over the next four years. Protests were the outcome of many students. -
soda bans
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the New York City Board of Health banned the sale of soda and other sweetened drinks in containers larger than 16 ounces. -
prohibition of alchoal
when the government banned achohal, people were doing illegal things just go get it. the government lose a lot of money. so they made it legal again