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McClatchy appears to have ordered its reporters to find businesses that want more taxes and regulations.

The gags almost write themselves. FReepers, you've got plenty of material to work with here. Have at it.

1 posted on 09/05/2011 10:59:20 AM PDT by 1010RD
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Well McClatchy News, who is killing small business? Regulation enforcers and taxes? Both of those issues/actions are killing mine.
33 posted on 09/05/2011 11:45:24 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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This small business owner says that this article is full of crap.


34 posted on 09/05/2011 11:46:58 AM PDT by JusPasenThru (HEY UNION MEMBER: INVEST IN YOUR OWN DAMN INFRASTRUCTURE FOR A CHANGE!)
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The health and safety of our guests depend on regulations.

Right - because you're too stoopid to figure out how to do things safely (and keep from getting sued) without some bureaucrat in DC ginning up a boatload of regulations!

36 posted on 09/05/2011 11:47:59 AM PDT by JaguarXKE
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Uh-oh! Texas better start worrying that their small businesses will move to California.


37 posted on 09/05/2011 11:48:12 AM PDT by HarleyD
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know thy enemies...

FROM WIKI-
McClatchy Company: ...
In 2008, McClatchy's bureau chief in Washington, D.C., John Walcott, was the first recipient of the I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence ... In accepting the award, Walcott commented on McClatchy's reporting during the period preceding the Iraq War:

... our reporting different from so much other reporting? ... we sought out the dissidents, and we listened to them, instead of serving as stenographers to high-ranking [Bush administration] officials and Iraqi exiles

FROM WIKI-
I.F. Stone:

Journalistic style: According to Nation Magazine ... an outspoken leftist journalist

42 posted on 09/05/2011 12:00:17 PM PDT by Optimist
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If you read the article, you discover the following

“None of the business owners complained about regulation in their particular industries, and most seemed to welcome it. Some pointed to the lack of regulation in mortgage lending as a principal cause of the financial crisis that brought about the Great Recession of 2007-09 and its grim aftermath.”

I got that far into the article in my morning newspaper and then realized that the respondents were obviously cherry-picked.


48 posted on 09/05/2011 12:12:42 PM PDT by bagman
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"Government regulations are not 'choking' our business, the hospitality business," Bernard Wolfson, the president of Hospitality Operations in Miami, told The Miami Herald. "In order to do business in today's environment, government regulations are necessary and we must deal with them. The health and safety of our guests depend on regulations. It is the government regulations that help keep things in order."

So, without the government looking over his shoulder Wolfson would imperil his guests' health and safety.
There is no other way to read this scumbag's statement.

49 posted on 09/05/2011 12:23:13 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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The health and safety of our guests depend on regulations. It is the government regulations that help keep things in order."

This has got to be one of the most absurd things I have read in some time...perhaps ever. What would he be doing without them?

52 posted on 09/05/2011 12:54:56 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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“...road to hoe.”

I thought the term is “row to hoe”

Author hasn’t done much hoeing.


56 posted on 09/05/2011 1:08:41 PM PDT by alpo
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what is then???
57 posted on 09/05/2011 1:09:12 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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I am a life long bookkeeper. I worked for large firms until I went self-employed & concentrated on working for small businesses.

I cannot for the life of me wonder what this pollster calls a SMALL business. Most of the “hospitality” business is large chains...not a 10 unit motel run under a DBA by your uncle & aunt.

The SMALL business people I have done books for for over 40 years are definately hampered by all the regulations & taxes & fees & paperwork.


60 posted on 09/05/2011 2:17:03 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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Mr. “Rip” Daniels complains about insurance... all kinds. That would mean healthcare and liablity. Well, Mr. Rip.. liability insurance costs so much because of the NUMBER ONE constituency that profits from democrats and socialists and excessive regulation (which provides lawsuit fodder)== THE TRIAL LAWYERS who sue business owners. Do any of these fake interviews get the point? Apparently not.


61 posted on 09/05/2011 2:21:18 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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Oh, yeah... but then you don’t have to insure illegal workers nor provide them with health benefits. Now that obamnesty is in place “he doahn got no problem wid finding hep”!!! Workers of the world unite..... not.

And to think Debbie McClatchy was a folk singer screaming about women’s and worker’s rights. What a laugh.


62 posted on 09/05/2011 2:23:22 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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Yep.

Businesses love high taxes, Union Labor and regulations.

Nothing makes them happier. :)

/sarc(?)


68 posted on 09/05/2011 3:48:16 PM PDT by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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McClatchy is an excellent place to start.

So, the Marxist ideologue takes it on herself to poll small business owners. Now we don’t know who these people are even if they exist. But by God Onada’s propanda organs glom onto her “information” as though it was the most credible information they have ever seen.

I wonder, pray tell, why most small businesses are not hiring and keeping any plans for growth in a desk drawer. Does McClatchy tells us what small business’ problem is?


69 posted on 09/05/2011 5:12:33 PM PDT by dools0007world
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