This isn’t any damned “unintended consequence”.
Big government, whether it be the EU, the US Feds or the U.N. are all ultimately bought and paid for by large corporations. A big part of what they are paying for is the legal harassment of small and start-up businesses.
Those consequences were intended. The EU loves beneficial crises even more than Obama does.
Good. This will help elect conservative governments in the next round of elections!
Small businesses are a pain for the Tax Collector State and are discouraged and marginalized deliberately by policy and enforcement. It works that way here, also. That is one of the reasons behind Obamacare.
Leftwing-ism is ALWAYS destructive.
Another reason to implant every serf with a geolocator chip.
Not an accident. The goal of the planners is to ensure everyone is employed by big business or government. It makes us controllable. Small business is their enemy. They won this round - in Europe.
That great opponent of the EU, United Kingdom Independence Party leader Nigel Farage, says the ruling cartel of major political parties of the Left and Right are in collusion with big business and big banks.
It should come as no surprise that they pass laws in the EU to destroy small business and leave only big business standing.
They aren’t for socialism, they are for crony capitalism.
How about a structure of no VAT at all below a certain size? Those Europeans are so brainwashed by Socialism that they constantly cry "OK, kill me but not quite so painfully."
.... And for some reason the Left in America are orgasmically excited at the possibility of Socialism coming to America ...... totally and blissfully unaware of the systems collapse around the globe.
FAIR tax supporters take note. Huckabee should have his nose rubbed in these results.
or, they are now operating outside the law