Re: Frigging ****pping sux!!! How can I get my parts to Canada?

"HLS" <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> 
> The Mexican economy hasnt, IMO, changed materially in years.  Large 
> companies,
> often family owned, may make a lot of money.  The undereducated
> working class
> does not.



Mexico has onerous and Byzantine rules for starting a company. They have 
extremely restrictive labor laws that make it expensive to hire and fire. 
It takes many months and thousands of dollars in fees and permits  
(official /and/ unofficial) to start a company.

You can't simply secure a loan, lease space and start buying machinery and

selling to people. You can't just go to a government office, fill out a 
one-page form, pay $50 and hang out your ****ngle.

It is virtually impossible for a small-time entrepreneur to do anything at

all in Mexico for these reasons. Large enterprises (automakers, for 
instance) and rich individuals have political connections and can bypass 
these rules more easily.

Mexico's government is why there are no jobs down there. Mexico has been a

mess since Spanish times.

There is (or was until very recently) a tax law in Mexico that basically 
assumed that the owners had been cheating on their (very high) taxes all 
along. When a company was sold, a cru****ng tax levy was imposed on the 
seller upon transfer of assets to the new owners. This law did not apply
to 
/family/ transfers. This is the reason there are so many family-owned 
businesses.



> Bribery, a modus operandi since the Aztecs were supreme,
> will probably
> never diminish very much..(Popular here in the USA too, I guess ;>) 
> 
> 


It was re****ted in either Forbes or Reason magazines a few years ago that
a 
study revealed that about 50% of Mexico City's policemen had "lost" or 
pawned their sidearms. Imagine that happening here.


-- 
Tegger