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Regulations, taxes aren't killing small business, owners say
McClatchy Newspapers ^ | September 1, 2011 | Kevin G. Hall

Posted on 09/05/2011 10:59:17 AM PDT by 1010RD

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.

"Government regulations are not 'choking' our business, the hospitality business," Bernard Wolfson, the president of Hospitality Operations in Miami, told The Miami Herald. "In order to do business in today's environment, government regulations are necessary and we must deal with them. The health and safety of our guests depend on regulations. It is the government regulations that help keep things in order."

SNIP

McClatchy reached out to owners of small businesses, many of them mom-and-pop operations, to find out whether they indeed were being choked by regulation, whether uncertainty over taxes affected their hiring plans and whether the health care overhaul was helping or hurting their business.

Their response was surprising.

None of the business owners complained about regulation in their particular industries, and most seemed to welcome it...

SNIP (You'll have to read it to believe it)

(Excerpt) Read more at mcclatchydc.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bullshoot; chickenshoot; dogshoot; hesoundsmuchogay; horseshoot; propaganda; regulations; smallbusiness; taxes
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To: cc2k

Exactly. Can you imagine a guy so wicked that without the threat of government enforcement he’d, he’d, he’d... well, what would he do to his customers?

Only liberals can be or think we are this stupid.


41 posted on 09/05/2011 11:59:26 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: 1010RD
know thy enemies...

FROM WIKI-
McClatchy Company: ...
In 2008, McClatchy's bureau chief in Washington, D.C., John Walcott, was the first recipient of the I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence ... In accepting the award, Walcott commented on McClatchy's reporting during the period preceding the Iraq War:

... our reporting different from so much other reporting? ... we sought out the dissidents, and we listened to them, instead of serving as stenographers to high-ranking [Bush administration] officials and Iraqi exiles

FROM WIKI-
I.F. Stone:

Journalistic style: According to Nation Magazine ... an outspoken leftist journalist

42 posted on 09/05/2011 12:00:17 PM PDT by Optimist
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To: American in Israel

Well the 21st century McClatchy paper is just following its long tradition:

“Known as a supporter of the people’s interests against those of corporations and corrupt politicians, James McClatchy (1824–1883)made The Bee a bastion of progressive reformism.”

Luckily for us a lie told a thousand times is still a lie. The only insult is did the McClatchy reporters and reporterettes really think we’d buy it?


43 posted on 09/05/2011 12:03:38 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: ab01

That sounds more like it; maybe I fell for a little cosmetic surgery to the donation list .


44 posted on 09/05/2011 12:04:12 PM PDT by gusopol3
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To: JimRed

Exaclty. Please, government, stop me before I hurt my customers again!


45 posted on 09/05/2011 12:05:35 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Beagle8U
They interviewed nothing but a collection of idiots.

I hate to be a grammar Nazi, but shouldn't idiots read liberals? Wait, I just repeated myself. Please ignore this post.

46 posted on 09/05/2011 12:07:23 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Optimist; Lazmataz

Right, just like Pulitzer, the Oscars, the Noble Prize, et al. It’s just a bunch of liberals awarding each other for being liberals. Then the liberals, coveting anything they don’t possess, write about the prestigious awards.

It’s like grade inflation for losers.

Although, I think it was Laz who originally named them totlitarians - a brilliant mix of childish dictators or simply a typo that tickled my Freudian slip. I think I’m going to steal that.


47 posted on 09/05/2011 12:11:34 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: 1010RD

If you read the article, you discover the following

“None of the business owners complained about regulation in their particular industries, and most seemed to welcome it. Some pointed to the lack of regulation in mortgage lending as a principal cause of the financial crisis that brought about the Great Recession of 2007-09 and its grim aftermath.”

I got that far into the article in my morning newspaper and then realized that the respondents were obviously cherry-picked.


48 posted on 09/05/2011 12:12:42 PM PDT by bagman
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To: 1010RD
"Government regulations are not 'choking' our business, the hospitality business," Bernard Wolfson, the president of Hospitality Operations in Miami, told The Miami Herald. "In order to do business in today's environment, government regulations are necessary and we must deal with them. The health and safety of our guests depend on regulations. It is the government regulations that help keep things in order."

So, without the government looking over his shoulder Wolfson would imperil his guests' health and safety.
There is no other way to read this scumbag's statement.

49 posted on 09/05/2011 12:23:13 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
I'm okay with the government prohibiting McDonald's from putting rat poison into their hamburgers.

Government is the last entity that should be "regulating" health and safety. People have been indoctrinated into thinking that without regulations bad things will happen. Nothing could be further from the truth.

A truly free market will provide superior health and safety enforcement mechanism -- both in speed and efficiency. Milton Friedman (his son) Ludwig Von Mises, and many others have written at length about such matters.

Governments have suppressed the ability of the market to handle the matter of health and safety, so most people can't even allow themselves to think about how the market would handle it. They just assume "we need government."

50 posted on 09/05/2011 12:29:36 PM PDT by sand88 (Sarah Palin announces: Aug 12, Opps!! didn't happen then, but soon will :)
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To: the invisib1e hand

This asshat is admitting that the hotel business would not do anything health and safety wise for their customers if not for the govt forcing them to. I’ll make sure that I never stay at a hotel in Miami.


51 posted on 09/05/2011 12:34:50 PM PDT by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: 1010RD
The health and safety of our guests depend on regulations. It is the government regulations that help keep things in order."

This has got to be one of the most absurd things I have read in some time...perhaps ever. What would he be doing without them?

52 posted on 09/05/2011 12:54:56 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: facedown

Ah...that explains it. He uses the regulations to make money.


53 posted on 09/05/2011 1:05:05 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: facedown

Another thing is that if he is doing all of that, he is not a “small” business owner.


54 posted on 09/05/2011 1:05:55 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Somehow, this became a question of whether we should or shouldn't have any government regulations whatsoever.

Being framed by the left and their allies in the media to confuse people as to the real debate over regulations.

55 posted on 09/05/2011 1:07:39 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: 1010RD

“...road to hoe.”

I thought the term is “row to hoe”

Author hasn’t done much hoeing.


56 posted on 09/05/2011 1:08:41 PM PDT by alpo
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To: 1010RD
what is then???
57 posted on 09/05/2011 1:09:12 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Exactly. They’ve been framing the debate about the debt ceiling by saying that most people blame the impasse on the Tea Party. That’s like blaming a traffic jam on the fire trucks that are coming to put out a blaze that was started by the world’s biggest arsonist.


58 posted on 09/05/2011 1:21:42 PM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree ("Nanny Care State" is not a Division 3 football powerhouse.)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Regulations don’t kill jobs?

Excessive environmental regulations kill jobs, the minimum wage kills jobs, Davis-Bacon kills jobs, Sarbanes-Oxley kills jobs, antitrust laws kill jobs, insider trading laws kill jobs, import restrictions kill jobs, Dodd-Frank kills jobs, and so does Obama-care.

There are idiots in this article — reporters and businessmen both.


59 posted on 09/05/2011 1:53:44 PM PDT by heye2monn
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To: 1010RD

I am a life long bookkeeper. I worked for large firms until I went self-employed & concentrated on working for small businesses.

I cannot for the life of me wonder what this pollster calls a SMALL business. Most of the “hospitality” business is large chains...not a 10 unit motel run under a DBA by your uncle & aunt.

The SMALL business people I have done books for for over 40 years are definately hampered by all the regulations & taxes & fees & paperwork.


60 posted on 09/05/2011 2:17:03 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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