Regulations, Taxes Aren't Killing Small Business, Owners Say

McClatchy:

WASHINGTON — Politicians and business groups often blame excessive regulation and fear of higher taxes for tepid hiring in the economy. However, little evidence of that emerged when McClatchy canvassed a random sample of small business owners across the nation.

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Comments

[ghorialtaf]

03:11 PM on 09/07/2011

Our current economic situation is terribly complex.
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[ChuckBlakeman]

07:26 PM on 09/05/2011

The #1 job growth sector is businesses from 0-9 employees - 96% of all businesses. I'm guessing there were none of those in your survey.

The SBA says a small business is every business with fewer than 500 employees, which constitutes 99.6% of all businesses. If you interviewed ANY businesses over 20 employees, they weren't small. So you weren't surveying small businesses, but something that politicians, media, and others with an agenda love to label "small business".

Regulations hurt the TRUE small businesses you didn't interview. Before the ADA was enacted in 2009 59% of disabled people were employed - now it's 48%. The overwhelming amount of employment is business with 0-9 employees, and they cannot afford the cost of complying with the regulations from this act.

You can do anecdotal surveys of mid to large size businesses all you want to support your bias, but a better article would be to simply look at the activity before a regulation was in place, and after, and you will see that most of them hurt small business.

Example: On July 15 of this year, the State Department killed thousands of small businesses with one new regulation. See http://chuckb.me/x4Z for more detail on how quickly this regulation put so many small business under.

Stop doing anecdotal, lazy surveys of people who aren't running small businesses in order to support your bias, and do some hard core reporting research to uncover the facts.

[AndyWright68]

05:44 AM on 09/05/2011

The comment below has been deleted 3 times!

Someone doesn't want you to know the truth!

[AndyWright68]

05:43 AM on 09/05/2011

ALL TAXATION IS THEFT! It is theft because the money is collected with threats of violence if anyone refuses. It is extortion, coercion, theft and it is wrong.

Don't believe it? Try not paying your taxes and ignore the threatenin­g letters from the state. Armed bullies in ridiculous costumes with badges will kick down your door, point guns at you, your spouse and your children, chain you up and drag you off to a cage as if you were a rabid animal. Resist this unprovoked assault and you will be brutalized­, electrocut­ed and have chemicals sprayed in your eyes. Defend yourself with a weapon and you will be cut down in a hail of bullets and kiiied. All because you, a peaceful person, refused to be a victim of theft.

USA - Comply or DlE!

WARNING! Do not really try this. You or someone in your family could get seriously hurt. Just pay the thieves like you would pay the mafia if they threatened you.

Many people pay because they have been lied to their entire lives. Government schools and the MSM have convinced them that taxes are their civic duty. This makes it easier to get their hard earned money out of their wallets. It is all very sad.

[Nobody78]

11:27 AM on 09/05/2011

Good one buddy, how would we have roads, police, firefighters, clean water, etc, if taxes weren't collected?

[AndyWright68]

12:22 PM on 09/05/2011

People would pay for them voluntarily or do without by choice.

It doesn't really matter how. the point is that the solutions would come from the people up instead from tyrants down.

[Nobody78]

11:28 AM on 09/05/2011

Show me one example of a country that works on a tax free system. Give me one example!!

[AndyWright68]

12:26 PM on 09/05/2011

There are many in the past like ancient Ireland, Iceland 930 etc and there are many anarchist communities in areas such as Denmark and the US but that is not what makes the case for a free society. The nonaggression principal is why tax slavery will fall along side chained slavery. Just remember that at one time the majority was convinced that civilized society would be impossible without chained slavery.

[AndyWright68]

02:21 AM on 09/05/2011

WARNING! PAY YOUR TAXES! You or someone in your family could get seriously hurt if you do not. Just pay the thieves like you would pay the mafia if they threatened you.

[AndyWright68]

02:20 AM on 09/05/2011

Many people pay taxes because they have been lied to their entire lives. Government schools and the MSM have convinced them that taxes are their civic duty. This makes it easier to get their hard earned money out of their wallets. It is all very sad.

[AndyWright68]

02:18 AM on 09/05/2011

ALL TAXATION IS THEFT! It is theft because the money is collected with threats of violence if anyone refuses. It is extortion, coercion, theft and it is wrong.

[mobile123]

11:51 PM on 09/04/2011

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[Tim The Enchanter]

08:19 PM on 09/04/2011

What strikes me about this anecdotal article is that "liberals" will believe ANYTHING that supports their belief system without question, to the point that they will argue tirelessly even when shown actual facts that contradict it.

[pinknlynn]

06:18 PM on 09/05/2011

And conservatives don't? If that was the case, you wouldn't be watching FOX News....continually.

[Tim The Enchanter]

07:43 PM on 09/05/2011

"If that were".

I get my news here. Then check it.

[mxytsplyk]

07:36 PM on 09/04/2011

Taxes wonʻt destroy the Republic. But Texas just might.

[Inastateofmissouri]

06:45 PM on 09/04/2011

More regulations as long as there needed to spot abuses.
I dont mind at all.

[Inastateofmissouri]

06:43 PM on 09/04/2011

I own three small businesses its not that bad.
Ya you hate having regulations.
But you understand that all business owner are.not responsible people.

[Minolta321]

06:39 PM on 09/04/2011

No, taxes are yummy. Red tape really helps small business.

The more taxes and the more Red tape the more we prosper.

And the day they take it all is when we will the richest of all! ????

Why with the massive expansion of regulation and fees the Obama administration has created I'm surprised business hasn't shot to the mood!

LAUGH.

[Inastateofmissouri]

06:46 PM on 09/04/2011

Im wondering what red tape do you have as a.photographer.

[Tim The Enchanter]

08:22 PM on 09/04/2011

Red tape helps large corporations, who can afford teams of lawyers and accountants, while being more damaging to up and coming competition.

[kcin]

06:28 PM on 09/04/2011

The Republican agenda is not, nor has it ever been, to create jobs. And losing job under Republican Presidents is common place.

This link to the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows illustrates this:

http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/surveymost?ce

Check the second option, Total Private Employment
Check the last option, Total Government Employment
Click Retrieve Data
Change the first date to 1953 (end of Korean war)
Check the box to include graphs
Click "Go"

Every time the line goes down we had negative job growth.

Every year with negative job growth since the Korean War we have had a Republican President, with the exception of 2009. However, Obama turned the negative job growth around and it has been positive since 2009. Obama added jobs in 2010 and 2011.

[Tim The Enchanter]

08:23 PM on 09/04/2011

You need to redo your figures based on who is in Congress and suddenly things reverse very quickly.

[kcin]

11:38 PM on 09/04/2011

Democrats controlled the House for every election from 1953 to 1995 with one exception in 1953. That's 20 consecutive elections of Democratic control.

So, a Democratic Congress was a constant. The ONLY time jobs were lost during that period was when the Republicans controlled the White House.

And by the way, Republicans also controlled the House in 1953 and lost jobs.

So, things don't really change. Jobs are good with a Democratic Congress and Democratic President. Change the President to Republican and jobs are lost. This happened with EVERY Republican President and with NONE of the Democratic Presidents during that period.

[Minolta321]

06:18 PM on 09/04/2011

Why are businesses leaving California? TAXES, RED TAPE, Anti-Business attitudes, Immigration issues (costs).

they don't hate the state. They just are no longer to pay for an out of control government that keeps taking away more and more of the fruit of their labor and burying them in red tape.