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Of course all of these things would be nice, but I just don't think it's an electable platform in 2024.

It's not based in reality, but the "biden broke the ecomony" narrative has a lot of traction.

This type of policy would lose more votes than it would win.

Yeah, probably. You know what's not going to pass congress? Any of that.

You know what would really help small businesses, like a lot? Public health insurance (covering things like vision and dental). A huge part of the cost of doing business is benefits for employees. Well, with public health insurance that’s a huge budget item that suddenly small businesses don’t have to pay.

It would massively help the creation of small businesses, too, by massively reducing the cost/risk faced by entrepreneurs.

Nailed it.

open business, close business, open new business, repeat, but they are all the same

And then think that somehow their business will become Wal-Mart, which has actually priced likely them and most other small businesses in their area out of competing.

The businesses that are most successful in my area that have lasted over the last 5 years are intelligent, humble, and treat their employees very well.

• They've opened in places that make great sense for them location wise
• They only participate in marketing, events, etc when it provides a real benefit
• The owners spend real time and energy at the business and events, participating in the community
• The employees are paid well, provided for (I mean benefits, not just pats on the back), and have opportunities for advancement as the business grows

These businesses deserve a tax deduction to me.

The type of people with shit shill companies to put their debt on or because they post a lot on social media about "hard knocks university" and their instagram is full of shit they bought on a business loan but never about what their business does and the work they do deserve to fail;

These people deserve the "limited" in "limited liability company" to come full circle. Unfortunately the second group is a significant amount of people that will vote for trump because they consider themselves "entrepreneurs"

One of the best ways someone can make a good living for themselves is to run their own business. Not that it's for everyone, but being in the driver's seat of your own income instead of depending on someone else for a wage is very much the definition of American individualism, even if an individual is simply contracting for a larger firm.

I don't think there's necessarily a shortage of workers, but I think there's a shortage of people willing to work for the peanuts these conglomerates are offering. Competition is severely hampered when large firms corner their respective markets and drive out smaller competitors, because now they are the ones in charge of the respective workforces and are calling the shots, including how much an individual is allowed to make. Smaller firms with lower overhead are able to disrupt them, as long as the playing field is level and the barriers aren't the Dover cliffs.

With this you could use to help start a co-op and start helping workers.

Why don’t we stop jerking off businesses with both hands and start helping workers?

Because workers don't have a strong outside organization to lobby officials for their benefit. You'd need some kind of... uh... I know there's a word for this. Big Worker Group. Like, a Wad of Workers, where they're all together making demands as a single bargaining unit. An amalgamation of people in a given office or sector of the economy.

Damn, I know there's a word.