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How does hiring someone in Kentucky become more difficult due to European Union VAT documentation rules?

My point is that increased business documentation rules, no matter the jurisdiction, do have a real impact on the ability of startups to take root and grow.

The end result will be a few large companies and no smaller companies in the marketplace. Barrier to entry will also be difficult. Is less competition and more large companies what we really want?

It's probably not what citizens want, but I tend to believe that governments and the EU wouldn't mind, since I imagine larger companies are easier to identify and control.

Conversely, no regulation tends to be literally Dickensian.

I for one am not against regulation, but rather the overhead of large amounts of required documentation. These are burdens that hit small companies the hardest.

And the are burdens that are generally not imposed by the regulations passed by our representatives, but are rather imposed by the bureaucracies tasked with enforcing those regulations. Bureaucracies are pretty much about documentation, and most see little harm in more. And this mismatch of understanding slowly stifles small businesses.

This is not a problem with regulations, it’s a problem with bureaucracies and empathy.

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