Could 2257 finally get defeated?

[EmporerEJ]

Originally Posted by pornlaw

Can I invite you to read the Revenue Code ? The IRS doesnt presume you to be innocent first. The idea that in America you are "innocent until proven guilty" has little to do with compliance law.

2257 is nothing more than a law requiring compliance. If anyone in this industry ever bothered to read some of the federal regs that deal with other industries they would be astonished with how relatively easy we have it.

Go look at what it takes to deal with the FDA... www.fda.gov to get cosmetics, medical devices or drugs approved.

How about throwing out some garbage... try dealing with the EPA and hazardous waste.... http://www.epa.gov/osw/laws-regs/regs-haz.htm

Wanna drive a truck across state lines, well here's the DOT's regs on whats required to be compliant ... http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/rules-regul...section_type=A

Trust me when I say all of those other industries have much more difficult regs to deal with than we do with 18 USC 2257.

Yes, and I fail to see how that does anything but guarantee "your ilk" (i.e. lawyers-no offense intended to present company) a continuing source of income. Once again, the founders thought a country based more on a libertarian society. And that's what I'd like.

Of course, that would kill the record keeping job, but I'm speaking in the abstract here.
Don't worry, we'll find something else for you to do.


Less law, not more.....
I've been through several of those you listed, including the PA version of the EPA....DER, to the tune of $48,000 for a property cleanup I happen to own when the music stopped playing. Didn't have anything to do with the previous 97 years of "abuse" as they defined it.....I was just stuck cleaning it up.

And I'm with the guys that say the IRS shouldn't exist.

Now, the pharmaceutical industry....now THERE is a winner. It's a wonder ANYTHING ever gets done there.

But you make my point for me. What the F*&k is with all these rules and regulations that are nothing more than an excuse to pick the small business man's pocket? 'Cause that's the guy that pays. The Corps pass it on, and the consumer never pays for it........the squeeze is always on the small business man in the middle.