Posted on 01/17/2020 6:35:25 AM PST by karpov
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Wall Street’s disdain for the bottom-up populist campaigns of Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders of Vermont has gotten a lot of attention. The candidates’ full-throated attacks on corporate greed, extreme wealth and banking excesses are backed up by ambitious plans to upend the industry’s everyday operations.
Wariness extends far beyond an elite financial fellowship, though, to many small and medium-size businesses whose executives are not reflexively Republican but worry that the ascendancy of a left-wing Democrat would create an anti-business climate. In their view, sweeping plans to remake the health care system or slash the cost of higher education will mean higher taxes for businesses and the middle class, no matter what candidates promise.
But if policy is an issue, so is tone. In campaign speeches and debates, some said, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren portray businesses as exploiting the American economic system instead of building it, and of contributing to income inequality instead of creating wealth.
Michael Brady, the owner of two employment franchises in Jacksonville, Fla., is one of the independent business executives interviewed who feel unappreciated. “I get up before 6 o’clock every morning and work hard,” he said. “I put 200 people to work every week.”
Mr. Brady, 53, said he voted for Barack Obama in 2012 and Mr. Trump in 2016. Since then, he said, some of the president’s actions and “some of his tweets” have made him cringe.
He said he could vote for a Democrat this year. But he finds several of the economic proposals from the party’s left wing off-putting, mentioning free college tuition and a nationwide $15-an-hour minimum wage.
What particularly irks Mr. Brady, though, are some of Ms. Warren’s statements about successful entrepreneurs’ not having built their businesses entirely on their own.
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“Mr. Brady, 53, said he voted for Barack Obama in 2012 and Mr. Trump in 2016. Since then, he said, some of the president’s actions and “some of his tweets” have made him cringe. “
What a sensitive, woke little bitch.
reservations , Is this a shot at lieawatha lol
The New York Times is the thug arm of the Democrat Party.
I work with business owners every day. Majority are conservative or lean right. Some are moderates.
Rare to find a liberal business owner. I have met some but they are rare.
Most small business owners are vocal about supporting Trump -when pressed to declare their preferences.
My business is growing and making money hand over fist, but his tweets. Bull hockey.
Mr. Brady, 53, said he voted for Barack Obama in 2012 and Mr. Trump in 2016. Since then, he said, some of the president’s actions and “some of his tweets” have made him cringe.
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People on the political Right have bent over backwards defending idiots like this Mr. Brady from the predatory shakedown that Leftists want to inflict upon him. When I hear that entrepreneurs are flipping back and forth between parties due to superficial reasons like “’Trump is to abrasive”, or “I just don’t like Trump’s tone”, then I realize that some people despite being able to create and maintain a 200-employee business, just don’t have enough wits to protect themselves.
Very many people have bought into the concept of President as National Talk Show Host, and expect a certain moderate tone from the officeholder, deeming that reassuring bland tone more important than the President's actual policies.
Obama was great at it - peddling Marxism while talking like Dr. Phil.
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