02-22-2023, 12:10 PM
(02-22-2023, 10:29 AM)Nately120 Wrote: Covid just sped things up. Small businesses are heading the way of the caspian tiger since our country is focused on ensuring the billion dollar conglomerates with which mom and pop compete are as untaxed and unburdened as possible.
If your business went kaput during the lock down you clearly weren't bankrolling what was needed to survive like the big boys. Working for yourself is a luxury and luxuries aren't luxuries unless most people can't have them.
That’s a bit of a cynical point of view, however the SMB impact is just one aspect.
What about pausing rent payments but not mortgages? What about the ridiculous unemployment benefits where states just printed cash to offset everyone who lost work due to absurd Covid shutdowns.
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again:
Inflation is a direct result of piss poor policies by our world leaders during Covid. Not just in the USA but the world.
Shutting down businesses and then printing money to cover ignorant shutdown policies is how we got here.
You can (fairly) fault both parties as it takes both to pass legislation but we all know who was pushing back at the time and who was the loudest proponent of injecting trillions of dollars worldwide into the economy.
