Not a ‘red tape’ country but a ‘red carpet’ country…
At Donald Trump’s recent victory tour through Michigan, one of the speakers was a powerful CEO from a major industrial power in the United States, Andrew Liveris of Dow Chemical. Mr. Liveris, who Trump has appointed to chair his American Manufacturing Council, announced that Dow soon will create a new research and development center in Michigan that will provide two hundred jobs. He made it crystal clear that the decision to build it in the US when it could have been located anywhere in the world was directly attributable to the industry friendly policies of our incoming president. In his speech Liveris used an expression that should be adopted and promoted by the Trump Administration:
“We could have waited,” Liveris said. “We could have put it anywhere in the world. … We’re going to use American hard work and American dreams and we’re going to fight for the Dow Company in the U.S.A.”
“You’re paving the way through your administration your policies to make it easier to do business in this country,” Liveris told Trump. “Not a red tape country, but a red carpet country for American business. That’s what we have to do.”
I don’t know about you but that particular phraseology just lit up in my mind, eliciting an involuntary, “Hell yeah!” My desire for an America that is a red carpet country rather than a red tape country was my primary motivation for supporting Donald Trump; I just never thought to voice it quite that way in all my pre-election writings on his behalf. If the Trump Administration wants a catchphrase for its economic plan, they could do a lot worse than The Red Carpet. It’s every bit as catchy as the New Deal and a lot more self-explanatory.
Crossposted at American Thinker
Category: Politics
I do believe that you’re on to something. Great phrase.
Stripping away many of this past administration’s unneeded and unwanted regs that stifled and shut down so many small businesses will be a good thing.
Let the market do it’s thing without interference from the government, and watch the economy expand.
Most attacks on small business are at the local and state level and are pushed into law by corporate lobbyists trying to hinder competition in local marketplaces or by established businesses and professional organizations trying to prevent competition.
Babblebabblebabblebabble… I’d tell you to look again, but you’re quite allergic to facts and logic, o petulant pile of peacock poop! The number of Federal Regulations have skyrocketed under B. Hussein 0bama & Company. Now that someone who truly knows how to run a business is destined for the White House, many have taken notice that it’s morning in America once again! Oh, I SO delight in the sights and sounds of fools like you wailing and gnashing their teeth, I look forward to more liberal toad boogers like Sanders bawling about “Corporate Welfare” and shit like that. As for me, I’m looking forward to the next few years, I’m gonna invest and capitalize on them!!??
And you Lefties joyously go along with that crap, and the resultant corporate donations to crony-socialists like HRC and Bernie.
Your motto should be “Feed us FIRST so we eat you LAST!”
Lars talking about running a business is like a virgin offering sex advice.
You are partially correct. Yes, some of these regs on the state / local level – one need look no further than California’s sky-high taxation and regulation. That said, the feds need to take their share of the blame – I’m guessing this is why you wrote ‘most’ instead of ‘all’? As far as Big Business is concerned, many are quite willing to shoulder an un-needed regulation. Why? Because they can bear the burden, but their smaller competitors would not be able to; they’d go under in a heart-beat.
Then why is it a problem for home builders to build and sell a home in the Pacific Northwest for less than $200k? I’ve talked to a few of them in my area, and the #1 reason is…THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT! The number of regs put in place by the JEF and his minions have made the $200K or less home as rare as the dodo in my AO.
If you enjoy having some technocrat telling you how to eat, sleep or wipe your ass, Lars, then you let them run your life… I and many others, who live our lives outside the walls of academia, are sick and tired of “Big Brother” trying to tell us how to live. Government can fuck up a wet dream, with all the rules and regs they have in place.
Pols and bureaucrats have never come across a new tax, fee or regulation they didn’t like. Most are lifelong under or non-achievers that see their mission in life as micromanaging others “for their own good” especially when it comes to “Environmental Issues”, anything from neglecting forested acreage while calling it “Conservation” to micromanaging development in the name of any critter from the Spotted Owl to the Three-toed Farting Cockroach. I say anyone opposed to logging can wipe their ass with plastic toilet paper or a Spotted Owl! IMHO most Beureaucrats are self-worshiping know-it-alls like Sparkle Pony Lars that think they know everything and anyone dissenting with them is an idiot.
Corporations are people too.
It is all well and good that he is making these deals; such as trading $7M in taxpayer wealth to save less than 800 jobs. Many of which were not being outsourced anyway.
The economy creates and destroys millions of jobs per year so these little announcements are quid quo pro public relations arrangements not reality.
And trading public wealth, health, and safety for corporate profit is not an innovative approach. Republicans always barter public health and wealth for corporate profit.
It should be remembered, however, that the market is at it highest point in American history and has more than doubled under Obama, and that unemployment dropped 5% to 4.6% since Obama took office.
Except the labor force is at it’s lowest since the 1970s, and people struggling from pay check to pay check don’t give a rat’s ass about the stock market.
It should also be remembered that the stock market jumped AFTER the election, but was slowly slipping BEFORE the election.
But then, I know little something about the stock market and other financial markets.
I’ll bet the Piuperdink is busily buying bolivars which are worth about $.02USD v. 500b.
Right! Not taxing someone, or taxing them less, is -stealing- from the People! That money -belongs- to others, not those who earned it!
Public Health is threatened by people not doing as their betters tell them! Why a high-carb low protein diet is of course the best! Pay no attention to big grain producers backing us financially for saying so…. Shorting the protein intake of the young doesn’t -really- stunt brain development!
Of course, public health is best protected by telling polluters they may pollute just as much as they can lobby for, based on their donations and pull, -not- of course by protecting private property rights of those downwind. Can’t have that whole “private” thing mean anything, or the donations tend to stop.
You idiots are hip-deep with big business, as long as they -fund- you and beg your indulgences. That is why you always make the issues some “offense against the state” instead of against the individuals harmed in specific ways.
How many people have been killed by the airbag mandate? The damn things are -bombs-. They are intended to protect idiots who wont wear seat belts. If you are properly wearing your belt, you wont hit the wheel or windshield unless the vehicle “cage” collapses, and then the airbag is barely a factor. Better crash cage design, and better restraints save lives. No? Why do the big race organizations not use air bags then? They go to tremendous lengths to prevent driver deaths. Hmm. Bit odd, eh? But the airbag mandate was certainly well funded, by bag makers, perhaps?
You hypocrites do not even realize how transparent your shenanigans truly are. There are two flavors of Lefties, those who quietly revel in the crony-socialist graft (and deny it al the while), and the ones too dumb to see it.
Lars is type 2, Hoffer’s “True Believer”. He even comes on here trying to proselytize. Pointing out the contradictions of “government is corrupt” and “we need more and stronger government” are lost on him. He’ll just rationalize that “smart people” (people like him), will somehow do it right-they are apparently above corruption. All lefties believe that they are just one more law, one more program away from Utopia, when that inevitably fails come the gulags-but it’s never their fault because they meant well.
He’d probably be given immediate tenure at a few choice universities like Berkley or Columbia because of it.
The crypto-Commie is in the too dumb to see it category. At his “school” in the Peoples’ Democratic Republic of Berzerkley one of his fellow travelers just stated to the media: “When students come to Cal (Berkley) they expect they will be taken care of. But what they get is about a third of what they need.” This person is bemoaning that there is not enough free food and free housing for their Free Shit Army students. See, they need free housing and free food to go with their taxpayer funded tuition.
Those snowflakes are gonna get eaten alive by the real world while the vast majority of Vets using their Education Benefits will leave them FAR behind.
Yep. The Soviets would have referred to him as either a “fellow traveler” or a “useful idiot”. My money’s on the latter, but either fits.
And how many people are not in the labor force, due to being discouraged in looking for a job?
95,089,000
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t16.htm
Obama hasn’t done SHIT to fix the problems, he’s made thing worse.
BTW – most of those people are WOMEN!
Remember the “gender income gap” they keep squawking about?
Hey o petulant pile of peacock poop, you were a Bernie-head, am I right? Just HOW many homeless people could have been fed with the money he spent on that NICE waterfront home he bought after bowing out of the election? That’s the type of question dingleberries like you always ask when a Conservative spends that kind of money.
Don’t forget about the missus who was the preezy of a college that had to close its doors this year due to some bad land deals that were made while she was running the place.
“It should be remembered, however, that the market is at it highest point in American history and has more than doubled under Obama, and that unemployment dropped 5% to 4.6% since Obama took office.”
Credible source? Care to share how much the food stamps enrollment went up under Obama?
“the market is at it highest point in American history”
You mean the big bad money hungry capitalists? How dare Obama take the credit for that….
That so called unemployment rate is based upon excluding everyone who has only a part-time job but wants full-time any everyone who has exhausted their unemployment benefits but still has no job. Last month, 118,000 of the 170,000 new jobs were part-time jobs.
The labor participation rate is down about 3% since he took office. And it is at 4.6% as of November, right before the Xmas season when seasonal workers are being hired for the holidays? (It was 5% in September) The U6 number is over 9% because that includes so many other types of people willing to work or even part-time working because they need to.
The poverty line has increased since he became president. Meanwhile, stockholder profits are up significantly. Also, welfare recipients are up about 36% since Jan 09, though at times that number was 50% (over 43 million people on SNAP as of Oct). Which basically means, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer since he became president. (Something democrats used to say evil Republicans were always guilt of doing to poor people?)
Home ownership is at its lowest in 50 years.
This is from Factcheck:
“White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said that 805,000 manufacturing jobs have been created since President Barack Obama has been in office. In fact, there has been a net loss of 303,000 manufacturing jobs since January 2009.”
Here’s a fun one: Handgun production is up over 130% but homicide rates are still going down, even calculating in last year’s huge murder rate. (Granted if you take away Chicago….)
It’s reported that more people in the U.S., in 2015, have died from heroin overdoses than have died from firearm homicide.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/heroin-overdoses-killed-people-us-hiv-melanoma-firearms/story?id=44087454
Do you know WHY unemployment “dropped” under this administration, Lars? It’s because millions of people GAVE UP on finding a job! They’re no longer counted in the statistics! This administration’s anti-business policies caused a DECREASE in the available jobs, and furthermore, a DECREASE in the number of full-time jobs. That “drop” in unemployment is nothing more than an illusion, “cooking the books” to make it appear that the American worker is better off than before. The fact that Trump was elected at all is a testament to overall worker unhappiness with the results of current policies.
Yep. The “official” unemployment rate is an utterly worthless statistic. It tends to drop during the height of a recession, then sharply rise as the economy begins to recover, for precisely the reason Eden states above. The spike as the recession ends is due to discouraged folks beginning again to look for work.
To a lesser extent the same is true with U6 – it’s better, but still has real issues. You want the true picture, look at the Labor Participation Rate (LPR). When it’s rising, things are improving economically. Whe it’s stagnant or falling, things “ain’t so good”.
As was noted above, the US LPR fell dramatically during the current Administration. As I recall, the LPR was well above 65% when the Current Occupant, 1600 Penn Ave, took office. It bottomed somewhere around 62% over 2 years ago. It hasn’t been that low since the Carter Administration.
It’s been about that ever since.
“$7M in taxpayer wealth”
HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA… Stop, you’re killing me!?????????
HEY YOU petulant pile of peacock poop, that money you mention was taken from taxpayers, it was their wealth being confiscated by Government and how often do we hear how wasteful they are with it?
I’m glad to see this happening. There is no reason that a large number of American industries which sent jobs to overseas manufacturers cannot come back here.
I’d just like to see the labor unions muzzled and squashed. They did some good things back in the beginning but now, they have driven industries into near extinction, which destroys real jobs.
With the amount of government regulations, requirements, etc., for employees, they really seem to be something not as necessary as they used to. Most especially government employee unions. They just become campaign collection organizations.
I found on opensecrets.org, Looking at the SEIU, they’ve contributed almost 240 million to campaigns, 99% of that money going to Democrats in all cycles. Of the top 4, 3 are “unions” and one is a government worker’s union that’s given over 100 million, most to democrats. The NEA is another big one, giving 100% to Democrats. (Shocker! Teacher’s union gives only to democrats.) Imagine what they could do if they gave those hundreds of millions to improve worker resources and capabilities, provided more compensation, etc?
I did the numbers a few months ago and out of the top 50, basically most of them give so substantially to democrats it is ridiculous. And the SEIU at #1 has given over 100 million more in all cycles than any other contributor. FAHR, LLC (looks like a headhunter company) is #2 but they suddenly popped on the radar this year. But still gave 100% to democrats. In 2016 they gave a shitton of money, 67 million? And the NRA isn’t even in the top 50 in 2016 campaigning.
Just in 2016, funny thing, Soros gave twice as much (23 mil) to candidates as Koch industries (10 mil).
And the dildocats are still LOSING, could it be a REJECTION of their political agenda by the majority of Working Anerican Citizens? I got a kick out of seeing them choose Nanny Lugosi to keep leading them off the proverbial cliff! ?
The only reason she’s in there is because she’s a “money maker” for them and that’s it.
If someone else could raise money like her, for them, she’d be Audi 5000. Not that it seems difficult to raise money with the numbers I looked at being raised for campaigns.
What I love is the prior president of the SEIU was the former head of the Socialist Worker’s Party, another crypto-communist org.
“Most attacks on small business…” Most attacks? Anyone have any idea what Lars is trying to say?
I don’t know exactly what he thinks he’s saying, but I do know that he doesn’t know squat about running any kind or size of business.
The large corporations he’s grousing about all started as small businesses. McDonald’s is the prime example of that, starting with one hamburger stand in Des Plaines, IL, in the 1950s.
Ditto Kentucky Fried Chicken. Colonel Sanders couldn’t sell his recipe to hotels, so he started his own roadside restaurant.
Currently, there are 5,000 breweries in this country. That’s five THOUSAND small businesses that brew craft beers.
I think the BEST example of a small business success is Amanda Hocking, who could not get the Big Traditional Publishers to take her manuscripts, trying for seven years to get accepted, and finally decided to just publish as an independent author through Amazon’s indie author venue, using social media to promote her books. Her net worth is $10 million.
When Piuperdink speaks, it’s mostly him barking into or at the wind.
Ballast Point Brewery was founded by a couple of friends in a garage in San Diego in 1996. A few months ago they sold their company for ONE BILLION dollars.
How’s that for small business success, eh?
And damned if they aren’t some good beers.
Lars is not unlike an obnoxious lap dog yipping and yapping just to hear itself. He HAS said something sensible here and there but for the most part he just regurgitates his liberal idiot perfessers’ talking points.
I wish he could be neutered. His yapping is unbearable.
Like a neighbor’s obnoxious little “yap-dog” that comes on to your lawn and does a “shit-and-run”, Lars brays and disappears.
Did you know that the first KFC was in Utah (true fact)?
I have often thought that they should call it Fried Utah Chicken, Kentucky Style.
Or maybe use some acronym.
Are you saying, you actually give an (acronym)?
I believe that he is inartfully trying to equate “attacks” to “barriers to enter or participate in the free market.” If he is talking about what I believe he is, he is spot on right. For example, to work in Georgia as an interior decorator, you have to have a interior decorating license. You cannot simply be good with style and colors. You have to take courses and be certified to get the license and at great cost. The people who promoted that license was other decorators who don’t want the competition. In many states, hair salons pushed for regulations that now require people who braid hair to be fully licensed as a beautician. Despite no one ever claiming a person who braids hair will harm someone’s hair, the roughly $20,000 worth of training to get a license is required. If you think other hair stylists were the driving force behind that, you’d be right. In Louisiana, a long, long, long court battle ended recently over coffins. (Yes, coffins.) A group of monks at a monastery (where else would they be?) made beautiful wooden coffins that were popular, beautiful, and sold like crazy.. Morticians pushed for and got a law passed that in order to make and sell coffins, you had to have full mortician facilities on the premises. Even though the monks were not going to cremate or embalm anyone, they were told they had to have those facilities in order to make coffins. . Wanna be a lawyer? Unlike Abe Lincoln (who was a very good lawyer) in all but one state, you cannot study and pass the bar on your own. You have to have a law degree from an accredited institution. That rule was instituted by lawyers in order to make being a lawyer expensive and therefore a barrier into the market. While Ex-PH2 rightfully cites the number of breweries, what is left off is the selling of the product. In many states, breweries cannot sell their own product directly to stores and must go through a distributor or in some cases, the state itself. The… Read more »
I know what you’re talking about, gitarcarver, but it doesn’t stop small businesses from coming into existence or growing. Enough determination will make that happen. It doesn’t stop mom & pop stores from existing, or small bakeries from opening. They just go ahead.
It doesn’t stop indie publishing, either. In fact, the success of indie publishing has badly rattled the traditional houses, which were nearly impossible to get into and which have now gone to promoting costly scams presented to gullible people. The independent publishing industry includes Amazon’s Create Space (print) and Kindle (e-books), Barnes & Nobles’ Nook, Smashwords and others. And they cost the authors nothing. Promoting and advertising are the job of the author, and a little research shows that there are many, many places that let you present excerpts at no cost to a wide audience. Therefore, the ‘big’ business, e.g., Amazon, is enabling the ‘small’ business (author, musician) to grow and expand. And both sides win.
On the gaming industry side of it, “Steam” is a games provider and for a couple years now they’ve had an independent game developers section that advertises games done by small developers.
Yes, steam makes money off it, but so many of those games get published and get funding because of it, in the long run they win as well. I’ve played a few of those Indie games and some of them are quite good.
“Doesn’t stop” is a bit of a stretch, but it clearly is a barrier with no discernible benefits. Professional licenses are in many cases designed to impede entry into the market. For example, take the hair braider I mentioned. She works out of her home or visits people in their homes to make money in order to perhaps pay bills or even to pay for cosmetology school. But the licensing requirement prevents her from making money to pursue her business. That’s a barrier to entering the market no matter how you look at it. I am not sure why you bring up “indie publishing” as the industry has existed forever. There are no regulations for printing or publishing anywhere so your example is a bad one. I forgot about two cases I saw a couple of years ago – one where I saw the citation being issued and one where I was in the court for another hearing. The first involved a father and son who were painting an apartment building. The son had the day off from school and so the father was spending time on the job with his son (who could drive.) A state inspector stopped by the job site and cited the painter for using his son on the job and the son not having a painter’s license. The son wasn’t painting and was only taping off the rooms prior to spraying, but the professional painters had made it a requirement that even “tapers” have a license. The second incident also involved painting. A couple bought a restaurant and rehabbed it. They had the outside painted by a professional painter (because that is the law – only licensed painters can paint commercial buildings which is a barrier as well.) The day before the opening the wife looks at the railing outside the restaurant and decides it is shabby when compared to the fresh paint on the building. She grabs a paintbrush and starts to paint the railing. She asks her husband to go get some more paint. He leaves. Up rolls a county inspector who wants… Read more »
We are now out of the zip code in which Lars wrote his declaration. He wrote, ” Most attacks on small business are at the local and state level and are pushed into law by corporate lobbyists trying to hinder competition in local marketplaces or by established businesses and professional organizations trying to prevent competition.”
gitarcarver: You wrote much about some state regs but not one line established that “most attacks” on small businesses are at the local or state level or that they are pushed into law by corporate lobbyists. Yet you state twice that Commissar is correct. You have made a good anecdotal case for questioning the wisdom of some state regs but it is separate and apart from what Lars asserted as fact. And as for that broken clock, a 24-hour clock is right only once a day.
Sorry you feel that way Ex-PH2. I gave verifiable instances. You, on the other hand, gave one industry that was never within the scope of Lars post.(Unless, of course, you want to say that Amazon and Barnes and Noble are “small businesses.)
The Institute for Justice has far more on state regulations and professional organizations hurting small businesses and acting as barriers in the marketplace.
Excuse me, but you’re responding to 2/17 Air Cav, not to me, gitarcarver.
And your take on Amazon as ‘small business’ is pure bullshit. Amazon supports small businesses by giving them a venue to make sales across state lines without the requirement of a bricks-and-mortar establishment, or a connection to a monopolistic entity like Simon & Schuster. If you didn’t understand that simple point, you aren’t paying attention.
Ex-I can’t tell who he is responding to. If it is I then my response is this: “Verifiable instances” are merely anecdotes and nothing more. They are examples that prove nothing with respect to the “most attacks” assertion. As for what the Institute for Justice has more or less of regarding state versus federal regulations likewise is w/o value. I can think of several reasons why the Institute (I am thinking now of Nurse Diesel in “High Anxiety”) would focus more on state regs than fed regs and none allow the conclusion signal that state regs are a greater impediment to free or freer markets or that “corporate lobbyists” are pulling the strings.
Yes, I don’t know what his point is, either, Air Cav. Mine was that Amazon provides an open market venue for entrepreneurs in a wide variety of small businesses without the obstructions that you’ve discussed. I thought that was obvious, but he didn’t get it.
‘that kids can no longer cut grass around the neighborhood because lawn care companies….’ Well, if that’s the case, I can’t even cut my own lawn because I’m depriving some of making money off of me? That’s what you’re saying, gitarcarver. And frankly, I’ve never heard of anyone being barred from mowing the neighbor’s yard in exchange for a couple of bucks. I guess it depends on how restrictive your city hall is about such things. I know there are suburbs where YOUR lawn care guy has to be licensed in YOUR suburb, because ‘we don’t know if he’s safe to be here’, or some such nonsense, but that’s the city council doing its brand of money-grubbing, NOT local lawn care companies. On the other hand, child labor laws vary from state to state, but as far as I know there are no such restrictions on kids mowing the neighbors’ yards to earn money in my state. The real barrier to letting any kid mow my lawn, when I can do it myself, is my liability if the kid gets hurt by using power equipment of any kind. What you’re saying about kids needing a license to mow someone else’s lawn is that I can’t even mow my own lawn. I’d have to hire someone to do it. That’s possibly the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard of. I do know about maintenance-free developments that do all the maintenance in your yard, whether you like it or not, and restrict the plants and trees that you can plant, but I wouldn’t live in one of those if you paid me to. And just because the license restriction may apply in your county, that does not mean it is universal. I don’t know why you’d have difficulty with my including independent publish in this. In the 17th through 18th centuries, that was how publishing worked. There were no publishing houses. They came into existence in the 19th century. The heads of those houses decided who would and would not be published. Anyone who went to a vanity press was considered a… Read more »
No matter where you go, national, state or local there are companies that want to squash the competition. This is very apparent in the case of AirBNB and Lyft/Uber as established industries donate to their Lackies on both sides of the aisle to quash them.
Southpark had an excellent episode about the Uber vs Taxicabs issue.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jETCrZfRHrk
gitarcarver: That state regulations exist, some all, or most of which may constitute barriers to a free market or a freer market there is no doubt. My query goes to the qualifier “most.” Your anecdotes were fine and we all can come up with them, but please explain the measure taken of the regulatory impediments and the method used to conclude that most are state or local.
Both Lars and Gitarcarver miss the point. No one denies that many impediments to small business development exist at the local level. My piece is about a welcoming, encouraging attitude toward American big businesses to entice them into keeping or relocating their manufacturing operations, which may entail hundreds if not thousands of good-paying jobs, on American soil.
Lar’s objection, as his so often are, is a red herring. But even if his assertion is completely factual, do those small businesses then need even more roadblocks in their way in the form of excessive federal taxation and oppressive federal regulations?
What is important here is that Mr. Liveris can’t be the only CEO of a major industrial corporation who is feeling the glow of welcome being offered by the Trump Administration.
Oh, and as for the few million taxpayer dollars President Trump is using to entice these large corporations, where the hell were you on that topic Lars, when Obama was shelling out almost a billion taxpayer dollars for so-called “shovel-ready” jobs that never materialized even by Obama’s own admission? I’ll bet you were a cheerleader then, boy.
“where the hell were you on that topic Lars, when Obama was shelling out almost a billion taxpayer dollars for so-called “shovel-ready” jobs that never materialized even by Obama’s own admission? I’ll bet you were a cheerleader then, boy.”
Boom….
*POW!*, right in the kisser! ??
Don’t forget the million paid out in loan guarantees to create that fabulous “green” company know as Solyndra, so it could hire 1300 “permanent” employees who were laid off after about 15 months.
249 Million dollar grant from the US Govt of our tax dollars, with a 535 million dollar loan guarantee from the Energy Department. Among other taxpayer funding wasted on them, including tax breaks and the like.
I knew I should not have taken the “s” off “millions.” It only made me off by a factor of about 800. Must engage brain when proof reading. Thanks for the correction MSG. As we used to say, “I stand corrected.”
Might as well throw in the 3 billion for cash for clunkers too and $529 million to Fisker Automotive.
“You didn’t build that”
Fisker, another fabulous “investment” of taxpayer dollars, creating good jobs in Finland. Too bad they went belly up with their green Jobs, too.
I consider both of them to be raising red herrings, Poetrooper. There isn’t a lot of difference between big, multinational corporations and the medieval guilds. Both had government approval, both had tight grips on business. The guilds were about as dynastic as you can get, but stagnant and not forward-looking as long as they could squash competition.
Then along came the Renaissance, which loosened that grip a little bit. After all, if the King or Queen wants a bunch of brigantines built, and you are the shipbuilders’ guild, and people are looking for work, you can’t exactly justify turning away 60 apprentices if you only have 10 shipwrights to start with, can you? No.
Then along comes the Industrial Revolution and the restrictions are thrown to the winds. It’s a free-for-all, and anyone with a lot of drive and a bright idea can literally make it to the top of the heap. That hasn’t really stopped, because essentially the same thing happened with the computer – electronics – communications ‘revolution’.
I think there’s another Time-Warner and Somebody merger underway, which has to answer to Sherman Antitrust rules. The shakeups happen faster now than they used to, but not one part of that prevents anyone who starts or wants to operate a small business from competing in a larger market.
Seriously, how are you going to shut down one person like Amanda Hocking or J.K. Rowling? How are you going to stop the Pioneer Woman from selling her kitchenware and cookbooks on QVC and through Walmart? People like this don’t even require a place to operate. They only need a sales venue and any company like Walmart or Amazon or Barnes & Noble is not going to turn away sales. It’s that simple.
This is why I said Commissar doesn’t know his butt-end from a hole in the ground about business, large or small.
But But But, Berkley taught him all about business because professors hiding behind a lectern for 30 years know EVERYTHING about business and how evil capitalism is……
Berserkley has a Business Department? Who knew?
Yes, it is the 420 series of classes… aka The “How to make gluten and peanut free granola without offending the chaff” School of Bishness. These classes are Tie-Dye tee shirt ” uniform” mandatory , but attendance is not…you know if you’ve got a legit excuse…”my binkie fell out” , “I left my Alinski out in the rain boo hoo hoo” , “TRUMP got elected by Putin”….. yada yada yaaaaadaaaaa 😉
Nicely put, Poe.
Another simple reality for the reality challenged among us is that the more local the regulation is the more influence an individual small business owner has upon that regulation. When federal regulation becomes burdensome, small businesses have few options other than closing their doors. Large businesses can and do move to locations without the burdensome regulation.
Exactly, OWB, and a reality that should be readily apparent to all, but some, like Lars and Gitarcarver, seem to miss it entirely. neither of them seems to grasp that preventing competition that doesn’t have to adhere to the same regulations you, as a licensed, legitimate business operator, do, is simply common sense. Licensing ensures that the public is assured of certain standards of performance. You want an institute trained and certified technician working under the hood of your 50K automobile or a shade-tree mechanic?
Or worse yet, a soon to be disbarred lawer working on your class action lawsuit.
That is some top notch Ass Kissing right there.
Dow CEO has a crystal ball I guess. He knew Trump was going to win last year.
A company like Dow takes months just to decide to take a shit. Are we supposed to believe that this was not going to be built in America no matter who was President.
As someone who deals regularly with government intrusion into business this idea of a red carpet for business instead of red tape is indeed uplifting….sometimes one gets the sense here in the PRoM that in spite of the rhetoric to the contrary they really don’t want us manufacturers here…I’m looking forward to this aspect of Trump and it’s why I voted for him, not just because he was a better choice than the villainess but for the hope that a business guy might “get it” when it comes to making small business welcome again, and small business that isn’t a cookie shop or some other service sector shop, but a small manufacturer.
Let’s hope this is indeed a trend Poe.
If the man’s serious about being more “business friendly”, he can start by working with Congress to lower US corporate taxes.
The US now has the third highest total overall corporate tax rate in the world. Only the UAE and Puerto Rico have a higher corporate tax rate.
http://taxfoundation.org/article/corporate-income-tax-rates-around-world-2016
Think that might explain a big part of why China is eating our lunch when it comes to import/export balance of payments?
The statement “Corporations don’t pay taxes” is kinda true, the cost always gets passed on to the Consumer.
There’s the tax part, Hondo, but there is also the lack of union interference in China, which makes it attractive to companies like Apple who want high quality products at a low corporate cost.