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In reply to the discussion: Ahem, we can stop now with the latest Hillary outrage #regulationgate...... [View all]MindPilot
(12,693 posts)12. Hillary sets herself apart as just another candidate.
Absolutely every person from either party has the same rhetoric "regulation bad...regulation hurt business!"
You will never hear any of them talk about the burdensome regulations on people. Like that regulation that rescinds my 4th amendment rights 100 mile from the coast, or those rules that make it absurdly difficult to travel freely within my own borders, or that regulation that requires me to work until I'm at least 65, or those rules that make my income more taxable than Wells Fargo's.
Just once I would like to hear one person running for office talk about how they want to help actual real people, not buinessiness and the made-up John and Jane Doe that they "met on the campaign trail..."
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Ahem, we can stop now with the latest Hillary outrage #regulationgate...... [View all]
boston bean
Apr 2015
OP
Vitriol? Correcting an outright mis-representation (that's a polite word) is vitriol?
MADem
Apr 2015
#43
It is still a fake issue though. That is not why small business is sufferring in the US
newthinking
Apr 2015
#30
It is ONE, meaning there are other issues facing small business. arendt is saying that to
ChisolmTrailDem
Apr 2015
#27
"...the creation of small business and job creation has been a goal for democrats for a long time" <
jtuck004
Apr 2015
#8
Because one politician bought and paid for by Goldman Sachs sounds like another?
shawn703
Apr 2015
#9
The larger the artifical entity, the greater the restraints on it's potential.
Half-Century Man
Apr 2015
#20
It may be that the US ranks so low in small business creation because....
Dont call me Shirley
Apr 2015
#38
Yes, and also because Ms. Smith's Hardware Store can't compete with Home Depot or Lowe's
merrily
Apr 2015
#45
And big box stores are stealing our local taxes by being allowed to keep sales taxes they collect!
Dont call me Shirley
Apr 2015
#48
The big box stores probably came up with the policy. And the legislators who enacted the policy
merrily
Apr 2015
#50
I don't like when Dems spew right wing talking points. The purpose of this OP escapes me
Doctor_J
Apr 2015
#56