| Comment Number: | 522418-01612 |
| Received: | 6/9/2006 3:05:08 PM |
| Organization: | citizen, human being |
| Commenter: | michael hopping |
| State: | GA |
| Subject: | Business Opportunity Rule |
| Title: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking |
| CFR Citation: | 16 CFR Part 437 |
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Comments:
Ref: proposed BusOp Rule R511993 Please discontinue this proposed Rule. We, the public, do not need such unreasonable protection. It proposes to turn each person in each direct selling business into an exacting paper-shuffler no less than if we were all attorneys or paralegals. Most of us are not that competent nor exacting and need to be able to function at the level of intelligence and competence we possess without unneccessary burdens such as this proposal. Almost half the stuff our family buys is from direct sellers. We buy from people we trust and continue to do so year after year. Sometimes things go awry and we lose money. Most of the time we have made good decisions and have either bought at a competitive price or else have purchased stuff of superior quality for our uses. If your proposal were to become law, many if not most people who need to earn money through direct selling would end up leaving their businesses, lose productiveness and be a burden on the rest of us or on the jurisdiction where they dwell. Much of the taxable earnings within America is from such small businesses and direct selling businesses. Please don't axe their opportunities. It is hard enough for people to have the courage and ambition to attempt to face their acquaintances with goods and services of value. Possibly the person or persons in your org. who have proposed this Rule have observed bad businesspeople who have taken advantage of people. Those same people would behave in the same bad manner regardless of this new proposed Rule. You would be discouraging millions of good people from continuing to make goods and services available to the rest of us. That is bad government. Leave us alone. You have enough red tape and laws to punish those who behave badly. I have lived in Europe and have observed that free enterprise is virtually nonexistent because of rules like this one you propose. So, people there must work for whatever corporation will hire them, at whatever wages they can hope to earn. Restrictive and numbing. Thank you, Michael hopping