BF2S Forums Investment

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

That small business owners can be tyrants doesn't really set them apart from other groups of business people. Property owners, property managers, district managers, accountants, etc., can be a pain to deal with.

Correct but no one runs ads during the Superbowl telling people to support small landlords or support your regional manager.

And what of the small grocery stores with poverty wages for employees? Are we supposed to sing them a sad song too?

All I am asking is to not get guilt tripped.

What specific policies does the government enforce that hurts small business owners aside from sales tax? I am skeptical of big business deregulation for what it is worth. Flammable faucet water and subprime mortgages etc.

Kitchen Nightmares, right. Gordon has like a billion shows, doesn't he.

Gosh, where to even begin. High operating fees, licensing fees, local permits, renewals of these, government delegation of "collections" duties to people who run businesses (enjoy being the "bad guy" processing withholdings and having to explain why; also why should the boss know about an employee's child support?). Papers, papers, papers. The paper pushers giving you all that stuff to do seem to think you have all the time in the world to do it. Or you get to hire accountants and tax attorneys to take care of it, yet another expense. I'm not talking about being allowed to empty industrial byproduct into a wildlife sanctuary.

I'll concede that the "support small businesses" message from Republicans is often empty, disingenuous pandering, with about the same unenthusiastic momentum of a commercial celebrating pandemic health care workers. But I don't feel that it's quite up to the level of the unconditional thin blue liners. And certainly not the reflexive "thank you for your service (but screw off and die underneath an overpass)." I am told by some business contacts that the Republicans "saved them" in the past, but they can't seem to explain how. The Reagan 80s must exist in some quantum prison.

Missouri abandons voter-approved Medicaid expansion

Less than a year after Missouri voters approved a constitutional amendment expanding Medicaid coverage, Gov. Mike Parson (R) said Thursday he will drop plans to implement the expansion after legislators refused to provide funding.

Parson sent a letter to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services formally withdrawing plans to expand MO HealthNet, the state’s Medicaid program. He said the legislature’s refusal to fund the expansion threatened the entire program’s fiscal solvency.

“Although I was never in support of MO HealthNet expansion, I always said that I would uphold the ballot amendment if it passed. The majority of Missouri voters supported it, and we included funds for the expansion in our budget proposal,” Parson said in a statement. “However, without a revenue source or funding authority from the General Assembly, we are unable to proceed with the expansion at this time.”

I mean not since innocent people are going to die early deaths related to preventable blah blah. But the state votes red and this is what you get. Get fucked

It wouldn't surprise me to learn that some of thought that went into this strategy is to create worse conditions for their people, and then blame the Biden administration. Of course it will all be worth it if McConnell can reclaim majority.

It's not like Democrats can't nurse their own wastelands, but it's pretty egregious to cut off benefits your people actually want. A hundred years ago and Pinkertons would be marching people to the factories at gunpoint or something.

"Trust in trickle-down theory!" *some tax money trickles back* "No, wait!"

Republicans hate our gov now after Covid idk if he wants to continue after that harassment

I was curious what sort of info you get from our broker service when selling company shares through our employee share plan at work and wanted to realize some of my gains that have basically doubled in value from when I purchased them, so I just had an order filled selling about 20% of my shares. I get to put long-term capital gains on my taxes next year!

rent-seeker.

fuck them small landlords who couldn't pay off their mortgage that they could only pay to begin with because someone else was actually paying it.

SuperJail Warden wrote:

According to New York Times, the eviction moratorium ends on Saturday. They put together a really interesting infographic map thing on their website.

We desperately need to think up a euphemism for the word 'landlord'. "What about the small landlords who can't pay their mortgages?" Sorry I can't help but imagine landed gentry when people talk about landlords.

they're called a rentier class. landlords are seldom really 'landed' and certainly not 'gentry'.

Screw the slumlords but also screw the destructive, asshole renters.