[facedown]

More like “Murder”.

[Tzimisce]

And small business keeps voting for this.

So what do you want me to say?

[freedomfiter2]

Secondly, the balance of power in our nation needs to be dramatically shifted. Conservatives run around talking about the need to reduce the power of government and liberals run around talking about the need to reduce the power of corporations, and actually both of them are right.

Big government and big corporations are big buddies.

[jakerobins]

I was watching a special about how Cuba is getting “New Freedoms” like being able to own a cell phone or applying to get a biz license. Makes me wonder if in the future an Amercian Citizen wants to open a restaurant will they have to plead before one of Obama’s panels to get one?

[tiki]

Small business can’t keep up with the excessive regulations.

[Trod Upon]

All by design. Fascists prefer working with a very few entities they can easily direct. Democrats want as many Americans reduced to dependency upon large entities, whether the government or large corporations in bed with it, as they can get. Self reliant people cannot be steered like cattle.

[jjotto]

http://uregina.ca/~gingrich/s28f99.htm

...d. Petty Bourgeoisie and Middle Class. The lower middle class or the petty (petite) bourgeoisie (the bourgeoisie was sometimes called the middle class in this era), constitutes “the small manufacturer, the shopkeeper, the artisan, the peasant”.

The characteristic of this class is that it does own some property, but not sufficient to have all work done by employees or workers. Members of this class must also work in order to survive, so they have a dual existence – as (small scale) property owners and as workers. Because of this dual role, members of this class have divided interests, usually wishing to preserve private property and property rights, but with interests often opposed to those of the capitalist class.

This class is split internally as well, being geographically, industrially, and politically dispersed, so that it is difficult for it to act as a class.

Marx expected that this class would disappear as capitalism developed, with members moving into the bourgeoisie or into the working class, depending on whether or not they were successful. Many in this class have done this, but at the same time, this class seems to keep recreating itself in different forms.

Marx considers the petite bourgeoisie to be politically conservative or reactionary, preferring to return to an older order. This class has been considered by some Marxists to have been the base of fascism in the 1920s and 1930s. At other times, when it is acting in opposition to the interests of large capital, it may have a more radical or reformist bent to it (anti-monopoly)...

[only1percent]

Very small employers are actually exempt from most of of the Obamacare mandates and fines. Small employers who couldn’t previously afford benefits may actually be helped, since they the exchanges may enable workers who previously wouldn’t have taken no-benefit jobs to be willing to accept them.

[SecondAmendment]

Methinks we are witnessing the death of America in America.

[TChad]

Apart from the various political considerations here, any analysis of small business decline should include an examination of the effect of the Internet on the particular businesses.

Brick-and mortar retail businesses are getting creamed by Internet vendors, and that's just the start.

[sten]

as small businesses stay to close... our economic diversity decreases... reducing items that other countries would want... driving down non-domestic sales... resulting in an inability to pay off national debt

[RetiredTexasVet]

There is no upside to what the Food Stamp President and the progressives are up to. They are like Lenin and Stalin who exterminated the Kulaks (small businesses and successful farmers) as their first order of business in order to eliminate any competition to the state run businesses. The progressives are trying the same thing to eliminate any competition to GE, Google, GM, etc. Remember, their ultimate goal is to eliminate them.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Small businesses are, by definition, not members of the big-government/big-corporate criminal complex, and their existence is competition for the BG/BC monopoly.

Just tax it to death, and the competition is gone, and the BG/BC criminal complex owns everything.

And the death tax ensures that small businesses have to sell out to the BG/BC criminal complex.

[PieterCasparzen]

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[upchuck]

Sure glad I sold my business a few years back.

My sympathy to my fellow small business owners. Regulations are causing a slow death.

Of course, that is exactly what nobama wants.

[mo]

Hyper-taxation.......hyper-regulation.......who’d a thunk?.?

[timestax]