Jan. 12, 2024
To all concerned at the SEC: I am urging the SEC to NOT allow the NYSE to list “Natural Asset Companies” or NACs, pursuant to File No. SR-NYSE-2023-09. I’ve owned a business for 30+ years and have witnessed the benefits of deregulation, and how that action stimulates small and large companies competing for my business. Technological advances have helped small, innovative companies immensely against the gorillas of industry. The only entity to NOT get more efficient and competitive is the government. When government gets involved, life gets more complicated, slow, expensive, inefficient, and it hurts business. Technology hasn’t made government more efficient and streamlined, it has made it more efficient at being invasive. Technology has fertilized the roots of the government weed. Carving out a new business entity designed to hide land from the American people seems morally corrupt and a step in the opposite direction of streamlining and innovation. Large, non-domestic, government-run entities, and wealthy morally bankrupt individuals could buy up large areas of land from unsuspecting owners or corrupt government employees, and make those land useless or a cancer to the citizens of the US. This is a national security problem. NACs don’t appear to be set up to promote capitalism, but climate “justice“. And for those of us who don’t believe we are in the midst of a existential climate catastrophe (I can provide plenty of details), this seems like a foolish action coming from uninformed, politically motivated zealots. The focus on the SEC is protecting investors - US citizen investors. NACs are a problem. Regards, Martin W. Kozik, President Excel Professional Recruiting, Inc. Office: (313) 881-9991 Cell: [REDACTED] e-mail: hunter@staffing-pro.com web: www.automotivejobs.net Sent from my iPhone "I'd rather have the stress and pressure of competition than the stress and pressure of not being in the game."