Killing The Goose

My late friend Walter Lutz always reminded me to not get greedy. He would say, "Don't kill the goose."
The context was raising prices. Raise prices too much and the customers go away.
That one principle has always worked well for me.
This year in my business looks to be another very good year. My prices are a bargain for people and I never lack customers.

The goose principle has other applications.

Government has a tendency to kill the goose with taxes and regulations.
Bloated government
Unresponsive government
Rude and overbearing government.

Government totally lives on private business and when government kills business it kills itself.

California is a good example right now. High taxes, hostile to business, big deficit. California looks to be bankrupt. Bankrupted by driving business away.

Little things add up.
I received a compliance order from the Santa Monica Fire Department.
I would like to appeal the order. So far, there seems to be no appeal process. The only thing you can do is talk to a higher up within the department. That is not an appeal process. I would expect a public hearing in front of an impartial board of citizens.
Yesterday I was speaking with a deputy Fire Marshall. She said no one has ever appealed.
Well! If there is no appeal process then how could anyone have ever appealed?

If I don't comply within 30 days I have commited a misdemeanor.

So overbearing government threatens me with fines and jail but gives me no recourse, no opportunity to appeal the order of a department.

Don't kill the goose I say.
I say! Don't kill the goose!