As a tax preparer, soon to be retired, I have done a bunch of business tax returns over the

[jody]

1. Wonderful expression. My Uncle (4th grade) started a small business that survived, perhaps 80-90%

fail in a few years.

The business grew and became the economic foundation of a small town employing several hundred people.

I have vivid memories of making molds with sand in which we poured melted pig-iron to cast parts, circa 1940.

Today people like my uncle with a dream and very, very little money cannot begin without lawyers, environmental specialists, ad nausea-um.

Each entrepreneur whose dream might come true could someday become a millionaire and the subject of venomous hatred by others.

A pox on government regulations that prevent small-business entrepreneurs from chasing their dreams that literally built the greatest nation the world has ever known.