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Trump Fans or Not, Business Owners Are Wary of Warren and Sanders. Some executives at small companies have reservations about President Trump, but also concerns about Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
New York Times ^ | January 17, 2020 | Patricia Cohen

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.

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics/Elections; US: Delaware; US: Florida; US: Massachusetts; US: New York; US: Vermont
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Small business owners should talk to their employees about what a President Warren or Sanders would mean. A $15 minimum wage doesn't help you if you don't have a job.
1 posted on 01/17/2020 6:35:25 AM PST by karpov
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To: karpov

What reservations?

The NYT is full of crap!


2 posted on 01/17/2020 6:40:10 AM PST by Artcore (Trump 2020!)
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To: karpov

The MSM’s usual tactic of blowing off criticism of the DEM candidates by saying that Trump is equally as bad, without any real proof to the claim.


3 posted on 01/17/2020 6:41:42 AM PST by CatOwner
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To: karpov

Meanwhile Biden and Buttpegg?


4 posted on 01/17/2020 6:43:39 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Decade of decision for America)
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To: karpov

Any “business owner” who has reservations about Trump is a mindless political bigot who has no business voting.


5 posted on 01/17/2020 6:44:23 AM PST by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: Artcore

Owners of small businesses in on the DC gig are very wary of Trump. He is a threat to their “business” model.


6 posted on 01/17/2020 6:45:54 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Artcore

The NYT has lost all credibility since it has been infiltrated by the communists...You can’t believe anything they say.


7 posted on 01/17/2020 6:48:33 AM PST by Halgr (Once a Marine, always a Marine - Semper Fi)
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If you have an “executive” at your small business who has reservations about a president who has ushered in the best economy in a generation fire them.


8 posted on 01/17/2020 6:48:59 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: karpov

The NYT is pushing Biden or Bloomberg


9 posted on 01/17/2020 6:52:57 AM PST by Zathras
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To: AndyJackson

Owners of small businesses in on the DC gig are very wary of Trump. He is a threat to their “business” model.

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I was thinking of small businesses in “fly over” country, but you may be right about businesses in the “DC gig.”


10 posted on 01/17/2020 6:53:03 AM PST by Artcore (Trump 2020!)
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To: karpov

Hate to break it to yinz guys, but sooner or later you ARE going to have a POTUS who is in the Bernie/Fauxahontas mold.
Likely in about a decade.

This is the price you will pay for DECADES of supporting an anti-American Leftist Socialist political party.

I for one am not going to be shedding any tears for you.


11 posted on 01/17/2020 6:53:16 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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So why is the Slimes taking shots at Bernie and Liz?

I’ll tell you. To help create the scene where Hillary “graciously” accepts the nomination for the democratic candidate for 2020.


12 posted on 01/17/2020 6:55:02 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (As a matter of fact, I DID only read the excerpt. OK, I intended to. Next time for sure.)
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To: Halgr

The NYT has lost all credibility since it has been infiltrated by the communists...You can’t believe anything they say.

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Yep! Goebbels would be proud of the NYTs!


13 posted on 01/17/2020 6:55:36 AM PST by Artcore (Trump 2020!)
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To: karpov

More good news due President Trump/MAGA, the mediots and elites of both parties are not telling us.

The IMF is warning that “global economies” will contract by $455 billion!

Posted by Mr.Copper @ 12:30 on September 27, 2019

IMF (international monetary fund) and Trump.

The IMF is warning that “global economies” will contract by $455 billion next year due to the ongoing trade conflict between the U.S., China, the EU and to a lesser extent, Japan.

President Trump will cost the “Global Economy” $455 billion…. because that money will be transferring back to the America First economy. That’s what happen as MAGAnomics reverses the IMF trade (wealth distribution) model.

China and the EU have devalued their currency in an effort to block the impacts from President Trump and the ‘America First’ trade policy. Because those currencies are pegged against the dollar, the resulting effect is a rising dollar value. In essence, the globalist IMF is now blaming President Trump for having a strong economy that forces international competition to devalue their currency.

In the bigger picture is why President Trump is the most trans-formative economic President in the last 75 years. The post-WWII Marshall Plan was set up to allow Europe and Asia to place tariffs on exported American industrial products.

Those tariffs were used by the EU and Japan to rebuild their infrastructure after a devastating war. However, there was never a built in mechanism to end the tariffs…. until President Trump came along and said: “it’s over”!

After about 20 years (+/-), say 1970 to be fair, the EU and Japan received enough money to rebuild. But instead of ending the one-way payment system, Asia and the EU sought to keep going and build their economies larger than the U.S. Additionally, the U.S. was carrying the cost of protecting the EU (via NATO) and Japan with our military. The EU and Japan didn’t need to spend a dime on defense because the U.S. essentially took over that role. But that military role, just like the tariffs, never ended. Again, until Trump.

The U.S. economy was the host for around 50 years of parasitic wealth ex-filtration, or as most would say “distribution”. The term *ex-filtration* better highlights that American citizens paid higher prices for stuff, and paid higher taxes within the overall economic scheme, than was needed.

President Trump is the first and only president who said: “enough”, and prior politicians who didn’t stop the process were “stupid” etc. etc. Obviously, he is 100% correct.

For the past 30 years the U.S. was a sucker to keep letting the process remain in place while we lost our manufacturing base to overseas incentives. The investment process from Wall Street (removal of Glass-Stegal) only made the process much more severe and faster. Wall Street was now investing in companies whose best bet (higher profit return) was to pour money overseas. This process created the “Rust Belt”, and damn near destroyed the aggregate manufacturing industry.

Unfortunately, putting ‘America First’ is now also against the interests of the multinationals on Wall Street; so President Trump has to fight adverse economic opponents on multiple fronts…. and their purchased mercenary army we know as DC politicians.

No-one, ever, could take on all these interests. Think about it… The EU, Asia, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, China, Russia, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Iran, U.S. Congress, Democrats, U.S. Senate, Wall Street, the Big Club, Lobbyists, Hollywood, Corporate Media (foreign and domestic), and the ankle-biters in Never Trump…. All of these financial interests are aligned against Main Street USA and against President Trump.

Name one individual who could take them on simultaneously and still be winning, bigly.
They say he’s one man. They say they have him outnumbered. Yet somehow, as unreal as it seems, he’s the one who appears to have them surrounded.

Comment:
Their media keep nitpicking Trump about some stupid info. Who said it? Probably the same “guy” that said Sandam had weapons of mass destruction.

On a global scale it’s almost like Reagans “welfare to work fare” agenda when they thru millions off welfare rolls in the USA. Now many countries and global corporations see themselves losing their welfare benefits.

Good guys finish last. No more stupid Mr. Nice guy USA.

http://goldtentoasis.com/wordpress/2019/09/27/the-imf-is-warning-that-global-economies-will-contract-by-455-billion/


14 posted on 01/17/2020 6:57:34 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Democrats sue Iran over the right to use "Death to America" as their 2020 campaign slogan!)
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To: karpov

The company execs who are afraid of Trump are the ones who make a living on Gov’t. contract shakedowns. They know their days are numbered when Trump is re-elected.


15 posted on 01/17/2020 6:58:42 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: karpov

Any Small business owner who doesn’t support Trump is probably not a good business person.


16 posted on 01/17/2020 6:59:24 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: karpov

They should also realize that a lot of their employees will gleefully get together and take their business away from them and gladly divide it amoung themselves.


17 posted on 01/17/2020 7:00:04 AM PST by McGavin999 (Queen Fancy Nancy Of North Poopistan)
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To: karpov

Compared the NYT the National Enquirer is hard hitting Journalism.


18 posted on 01/17/2020 7:13:11 AM PST by Leep (Everyday is Trump Day!)
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“Trump Fans or Not, Business Owners Are Wary of Warren and Sanders.”

If the NYT is allowing that small glimmer of sunshine to break thru in their reporting...it must be a whole lot worse than they are admitting.


19 posted on 01/17/2020 7:16:12 AM PST by moovova
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Mr. Brady the biz owner who voted for President Trump but might now vote for a Dem is stoopid...


20 posted on 01/17/2020 7:22:02 AM PST by goodnesswins (Want to know your family genealogy? Run for political office...")
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