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For every $1m an EDC gives to a fortune 500 company for relocation, $1m should be allocated to a fund for low interest small business lending. Mom and pop shop
by zelon88 8y ago
For every $1m an EDC gives to a fortune 500 company for relocation, $1m should be allocated to a fund for low interest small business lending.
Mom and pop shops have to pay taxes but frauds like Curt Schilling and slave drivers like Amazon get hundreds of millions of dollars (that they don't need) to create mediocre jobs with high turnaround.
Leveling the field isn't enough. Conglomerates are too big and too many. We need to lower the barriers for entry into markets where fortune 500 companies have made competition impossible.
- ethbro 8y agoTeddy Roosevelt's New Nationalism speech warning of the dangers of combination and attempting to reach a "fair" balance between labor and capital is as relevant today as it was at the turn of the century. And just a damn good speech. Skip through the intro about John Brown (he was speaking in Kansas and playing to the crowd) http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/new-nationalism-speech/ http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/new-nati...