OK, Explain This To Me Like I’m A Complete Idiot Part 9:

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27. Because of monopolies and mergers.

One of the biggest engines of job growth use to be small businesses. But this 2nd RepubliCON Great Depression brought to you by the bushes has seen small businesses practically disappearing. No longer do small businesses hire the most people. They just can't compete with giant corporations who are allowed to monopolize everything. Try and start a new business that may slightly compete with Wal-Mart and see how quickly you disappear.

Huge Corporations are given regional monopolies by state and federal governments. By doing this they wipe out their competitors and this reduces the number of jobs available. Take 2 grocery stores for example. One buys out the other and now there is only one. What does the merger result in? One store is closed down. All those people who use to work at the other store are NOT rehired into the new bigger merged grocery store. They don't need double the amount of space and employees. They just need a few more to handle the increased volume. The end result is a smaller marketing area and fewer employees.

In addition, these very wealthy corporations buy up politicians so they pass laws that prevent the small businesses from competing. An example is TN State agriculture regulations. If you are a small farmer in TN and sell chicken eggs, you are inspected. In fact every single small farmer in TN who legally sells eggs is inspected 100% of the time. Remember those half a billion eggs that were infected with salmonella from an Iowa large egg producer? They hadn't been inspected in over 4 years. Those eggs came into TN without inspection. Even the state enforcers will tell you that less than 1% of imported foods are ever inspected. Yet, every single small farmer who legally sells eggs in TN is inspected. And required to pay $50 per year, buy bleach, special cartons, testing strips, special labels and a myriad of other requirements.

Yet you can buy an egg in TN from a large grocery chain store and the producer might never have been inspected for anything.

This is how they keep out competition and destroy jobs.