Just Slow Down and Take a Breath

[Eric the Green]

(02-18-2022, 11:11 PM)JasonBlack Wrote:

(10-13-2021, 05:44 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: I hope to see a tax system that fosters small business. Maybe the new sort of housing will be more like a block in New York City in which the lowest floor has stores and shops -- with part of the housing block having room for elementary schools, medical offices, daycare centers, postal substations, repair shops, and places of worship. We will need small business for that. One of the glories of small business is that it can't buy the political system as was the norm for giant enterprises in the neoliberal era.

I'll respond to the rest later, but....this. 100% this.

I agree, small business is a good thing to support. Most people can't be small business entrepreneurs, although some can be if our society makes room for them by not bestowing such breaks on big corporations. Small business people should not allow themselves to be made followers of conservative ideologies on the promise of low taxes and regulations, but realize that its the liberals that protect them from being swallowed up in monopolies and oligarchies and which favor an economy that fosters economic growth among the people rather than just for the biggest and richest bosses as conservatives foster. It is often hard for struggling small business to recognize which political side is really most helpful to them and which is not, which requires them to see beyond their day to day pressures and see the bigger picture.