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They’re real alright. They’re the only NY Republicans I can tolerate conversing with. They’re all for race/sex/gender rights on an interpersonal level, but they just don’t care enough to use their vote to support them. They only seem to care about their own income at the polls.
But that's exactly the point the person you're replying to was making; Republicans are terrible for small businesses. So unless your friends are the Waltons, they're voting against themselves.
You know the single best thing we could do for small business and entrepreneurship?
I'll give you a hint. If you're going to run your own business as an adult, what's the first consideration? Particularly if you have kids. It usually involves your spouse and what they do for work.
Universal healthcare.
It's the biggest burden on entrepreneurship, so much so that you generally need a spouse to have benefits. And it's a huge burden on small and medium businesses.
The major groups against universal healthcare include large corporations, because it's another barrier to entry for competition, both in their market and for potential employees. Unions are against it because healthcare is one of the few things they've negotiated for. And of course the healthcare industry doesn't want the money sink to dry up.
Yep. Investing in our citizenry is the most fiscally responsible thing we could do.
There's nothing conservative about greed. Nothing at all. Just another Republican lie.