LordBrownTrout
Diamond Member
Wealth envy? Is that the best you can come up with? Sounds like Beck 101... anyone who doesn't believe in the CURRENT Form of Capitalism is just jealous. What I mean by "current form" is the extreme notion that "bigger is better". Look around you Chief...Mom and Pops are dying, being replaced by the Corporate. Small business is the answer, not the problem.
If you want small business to compete, you have to give them an even playing field. Health Care... Big business can afford it, Small business can't. If you were a newly married mechanic with a kid on the way... who would you rather work for? Joe's garage or Pep Boys? Or better yet.. who could you afford to work for. Both would probably give you the same wages or at least close enough... but Pep Boys offers Health Insurance... Joe's Garage can't.
That's the issue... that's the problem. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH WEALTH ENVY!!!!!
You're what Lenin used to call a "useful idiot". I find it amusing that the original term was given by Vladimir Lenin to Communist Sympathizers in America. Now it can be fully attributed to you people who support a tyranny that is irrepressible in nature.
But politicians generalize across the landscape, big, small, intermediate. It doesn't matter to them but it does to us who own small businesses.
IT does matter to some of them. Let me ask you something. Let's suppose your taxes go up by 4%... to the 39% during the Clinton years. Through that tax increase, it allowed money to be trickled down to the state level where they can afford to do more projects, hire their companies to do contracts for needed services, or even hire needed Public Servants. Having MORE people with MORE income increases your opportunities for business, does it not?
That's what things like the Stimulus is designed to do.
I take it you are a small business owner. Do you provide your employees with Health insurance? If you do...
A. How is it affecting your bottom line?
B. How good is the coverage?
Now compare that to the big boys who have Billions at their disposal.
THAT'S what the Health Care plan was(originally) supposed to do.... It's been so watered down though that I don't think it's gone nearly far enough. A Public Option was a necessity.
Imagine... if you couldn't afford to provide a quality Health Insurance Plan to your employees, you'd still have the public option to fall back on.... perhaps take a supplemental policy to cover some things that the Public Option didn't at a fraction of the cost.
Now... just for one second... think about what that would mean for Big business. That would mean that their "Commodities"(as referenced in another thread), would have the FREEDOM to choose your business rather than ACME INC. to work... or even start a business of their own and not have to worry about what would happen if their kid(s) got sick. That is huge.
Big business doesn't want THAT kind of competition...so they threw out the Socialist, Marxist, Communist labels with full gusto. If you have a business, you know the power of advertizing and Marketing... Imagine if you had a virtually unlimited marketing budget... Imagine the people you could sway to your side of the debate.
Why would I wan't to pay an additional 4 percent in taxes as a business owner? This could possibly keep me from giving out raises, bonuses, jobs, if the profits weren't there. Not only that, as taxes rise, I'm not gonna eat most of that. That gets passed on to the consumer or I'm out of business. As far as the stimulus, that's not free money. That's money that never made it to us that will have to be paid back by us. I mean, what kind of goofy economics is that?