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Federal Permit Required to be a Tradesmen, $37,000 fine

Message Steven G. Erickson
The EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency, is now in charge of all contracting, nationwide. As of April 22, 2010, if there is a possibility of an electrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, replacement window installer, or other trades person coming in contact with lead pain on a job, they must take a $600 class or face a $37,000 fine for working without the permit. Tipsters are offered a $5000 bounty to turn anyone in working without a permit. Is that an unfunded mandate? You now must keep 3 years of detailed records on every job you do, subject to review at any time by a federal official.

I haven't yet taken the time to research the law and read it myself. I talked last night with a carpenter who took the class, and an official on the subject the night before.

At a time the IRS didn't seem concerned about Bernie Madoff and Enron, waitresses and baby sitters were targets for their ill begotten booty.

The big are making the rules to harm and put out of business, the small. Bernie Madoff would have loved to have been the author of such new legislation.

The EPA may have torpedoed a once booming cottage industry while not protecting the public from major oil spills such as the one that just occurred along the Gulf Coast below Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama, alongside Florida.

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Steven G. Erickson is a freelance cameraman, blogger, photographer, documentary producer, screenwriter, sometimes journalist, and can and will travel anywhere if the terms are right. His objective is to reform America's courts, creating a "People's (more...)
 
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