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Bernie Sanders seems to be completely on the side of redistribution, but not wealth creation. And everything he has proposed will actually cause massive amounts of inflation. But what is the most impacting is small business.
If we have a mandatory $15 an hour minimum wage, which I think is nearly double the current minimum wage, then this will put small businesses in the worst situation. The reason why is because Burger King, or McDonalds can just automate their workforce, and make the multi-million dollar investment. However small businesses will not be able to do this, so they either will have to raise prices, they just flat out have to get rid of employees. This stifles growth of small business, not matter how you look at it.
We have seen time and time again, that small business is the hallmark of economic mobility. And nothing that Bernie Sanders has proposed will elevate small businesses in a any way. The key is that we can talk about racism, or privilege. But what kill all of that is the free market, and normal people being able to leverage the power of the market to get ahead of their situation.
Remember, the best anti-poverty tool is the open market.
None of the candidates can deliver on any of their promises/ intentions without Acts of Congress and funding.
Seems to me Congressional support for the platforms of ALL the candidates is weak, at best.
There is never certainty that Congress will support any POTUS initiative, even when aligned by party. Everything is negotiated and compromise is always necessary and even then..........
None of the candidates can deliver on any of their promises/ intentions without Acts of Congress and funding.
Seems to me Congressional support for the platforms of ALL the candidates is weak, at best.
There is never certainty that Congress will support any POTUS initiative, even when aligned by party. Everything is negotiated and compromise is always necessary and even then..........
Appently you have NOT been paying attention to Obama and his pen and phone.
It is going to be hilarious if a repub wins and uses the SAME mechanics that Obama has and watch the dems go bonkers as they usually do when the repubs copy what the dems have done.
You mean the small businesses, of which 70% are one man " independent contractor" operations?
Or perhaps you meant the small businesses that employ most of the undocumented workers.
Or maybe you meant the small businesses that are exempt from the ACA because they are, well, small businesses and employ fewer than 50 FTE.
Interesting....
American Business is Overwhelmingly Small Business
In 2012, according to U.S. Census Bureau data, there were 5.73 million employer firms in the U.S. Firms with fewer than 500 workers accounted for 99.7 percent of those businesses, and businesses with less than 20 workers made up 89.6 percent. Add in the number of nonemployer businesses – there were 23.0 million in 2013 – then the share of U.S. businesses with less than 20 workers increases to 97.9 percent
According to the SBA’s Office of Advocacy: “Small firms accounted for 63 percent of the net new jobs created between 1993 and mid-2013 (or 14.3 million of the 22.9 million net new jobs). Since the end of the recession (from mid-2009 to mid-2013), small firms accounted for 60 percent of the net new jobs. Small firms in the 20-499 employee category led job creation.â€
Appently you have NOT been paying attention to Obama and his pen and phone.
It is going to be hilarious if a repub wins and uses the SAME mechanics that Obama has and watch the dems go bonkers as they usually do when the repubs copy what the dems have done.
Really? I assume you mean signing statements and executive orders. Huh. Actually, St. Ronnie was, uh, patron saint of modern presidents using signing statements, and of course, Then Came Shrub:
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Originally Posted by Washington Post
But they [signing statements] were relatively rare until Ronald Reagan began using signing statements as a means of asserting the power of the executive against the legislative branch.
George W. Bush used signing statements to challenge about 1,200 provisions of 172 laws he signed — twice as many as all his predecessors combined, Evans said.
Several of the more notorious signing statements by the failed Bush included his, you know, his "freedom luvin'" domestic spying program, which, as history recalls, Republicans thunderously cheered:
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Originally Posted by NYT
But with the disclosure of Bush's domestic spying program, in which he ignored a law requiring warrants to tap the phones of Americans, many legal specialists say Bush is hardly reluctant to bypass laws he believes he has the constitutional authority to override.
In terms of executive orders:
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From Teddy Roosevelt’s presidency through Obama’s, presidents have averaged 118 executive orders per year (or more than two per week). Obama’s average of 32.8 per year (as of last month) is the lowest of any president since Grover Cleveland’s first term in the 1880s.
So let's see. You assert the Republicans will mimic Obama (in the highly unlikely event they ever occupy
the White House in the next half century), but in fact it was, you know, the Republicans who specialize in this area.
It's helpful, Sir, not to rely on right wing media for talking points and instead let the facts speak for themselves...
I'd say that decoupling healthcare coverage from employment would be the most pro-small business action since the creation of the SBA loan program.
Health care coverage has always been decoupled. That all just changed recently with Obamacare. And SBA is not pro-small business. It's pro big government, and make small businesses jump through even more hoops than they otherwise would have.
The private market has better ways for small businesses to raise money, such as with crowd funding, angel investors. I can't see what role government needs to play in this at all. All this does is encourage more borrowing from banks, creating more bubbles. That is all borrowing does after all.
It's odd how all of these "capitalists" (who really aren't) don't understand negotiating. In large it's probably why we really don't operate under a capitalist system.
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