Regulations take the fun out of business

I just finished reading your Review & Comment in the Gulf Coast Business Review. I could not agree with you more. I started this business nearly 29 years ago and the increased regulations have made it more and more difficult to show a reasonable profit and taken a lot of the fun out of running a business.

I started out with humble beginnings. When I was 12 we moved from the farm to town (a small town) and we had INSIDE PLUMBING — I thought I had died and gone to heaven. Freedom has allowed me to change my circumstances from what I had as a child and permitted me to help others along the way.

Many employees have bought houses, cars, boats, and sent their children to college with the money they earned here. The approximately $60 million in payroll we put into the economy pales when stacked up against the big businesses, but I know it helped, at least a little bit.
Keep up the good work on your comment section.

David L. Hurley, president
Landmark Engineering & Surveying Corp.
Tampa