Buried Always by Time Thieves - The Republic of Paperwork

Bureaucrats feed us new form after new form added to the old ones that add nothing but the weight of paper that no one will read, that is unless some prosecutor is ambitious. Bureaucrats are the engines of growing darkness, ever denser, the black holes in society. They suck at all productivity and steal precious time and treasure. They produce more paper for paper sake, that's because that is all they do. So they are under the delusion that it is productive and the more they produce the better... for them. Thus they are menacing thieves that suck away all time and real production. m/r

The Republic of Paperwork - By Mark Steyn - The Corner - National Review Online

By Mark Steyn
February 3, 2013 - full short post
You’ll recall George McGovern’s post-politics career as a Connecticut innkeeper. Over at Slate, Matthew Yglesias is undergoing his own McGovern moment:

Starting a Business Is a Huge Pain

I’ve been to three offices, filed five forms, spent $200, lost a day of work—and I’m not even close to getting the simple license I need.

In an ever more sclerotic America, government at every level throws too many obstacles in the path of its citizens for the economy to return to anything approaching meaningful growth.

And all poor old Yglesias wants to do is rent out his condo.