What if...small business fought back?

[Carole]

What if...small business fought to take back their businesses and to take back American free-market principles unencumbered by decades of bad regulations?

What if...a well-thought out letter, about how the governments of the past several decades and the current government have waged war and are waging war against small business, were placed upon the door of every tenth business?

What if...in that letter the businesses were made aware they must unite together to influence their COCs and local governments to begin supporting small business and get out of bed with big government?

What if in that letter...the points were made so well that all small businesses were convinced to make fifty or a hundred copies of the letter to distribute among other businesses in their city, county, and state, and set a date to meet in their various localities?

What if...ninety percent of these businesses agreed to a set of demands on pain of reprisal for the many wrongs being done them by governments both local, state and federal?

What if...the word spread around the country that if the war upon said businesses did not cease, these businesses would pick one day per month to close down?

What if...still no one listened to them and they selected two consecutive days per month to close down?

What if...still no one listened to them and they selected three consecutive days per month to close down?

What if...still no one listened to them and they selected four consecutive days per month to close down?

What if...still no one listened to them and they selected five consecutive days per month to close down?

And so on...?

Does anyone have a better suggestion than getting businesses to band together outside the usual venues and become the Sons of Business Liberty?

I believe the only thing government and special interest COCs are likely to understand is the power of the purse. I believe small business must wield their power and unite to cripple economies across the country in order to be heard and stop the madness.

 

[idiom]

Tricky sell. The idea is there.

 

[RonPaulCentral]

Good idea... but a lot of small business right now would be in deep trouble if they just shut down for days.... those days might be enough to put them out of business.

Payroll with no income = sucks.

 

[Carole]

That is why I suggest incrementalism. This is the tool of the elitists who have brought our country to this its knees. Can we not turn it against them?

At some point the local government might threaten to revoke business licenses, but they cannot revoke ninety per cent of the licenses can they?

Small business needs to understand that they will have to close down anyway when the regulations and taxes become unsustainable. That is the point.

 

[Carole]

Here is one example that demonstrates my point.


http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?p=2127272&posted=1#post2127272

“What really sucks is that Prosper.com -- a peer-to-peer lending site -- was the perfect place for people to get three-year fixed loans to pay off their credit card balances.

People were coming onto Prosper in droves to get unsecured loans at as low as 8 percent to pay off credit card balances at rates oftentimes higher than 18 percent. Instead of paying the credit cards companies, they would pay their fellow citizens who were Prosper lenders. You often had borrowers on Prosper asking for loans saying they didn't want to pay interest to banksters and would rather pay it to their fellow Americans.

Well, the SEC was having none of that and they shut Prosper down last October. Prosper re-opened recently for California lenders and the new rules have basically limited the amount you could lend on the site, with all kinds of legal restrictions that made the site user unfriendly. Prosper shut back down again to work things out with the SEC, but it is not looking good.

The SEC regulators are basically killing off what could have offered a real alternative to the big banks, with borrowers paying interest on loans directly to anyone who signed up on Prosper with as little as $50 to lend.

Of course, the SEC is regulating Prosper into bankruptcy all for our own good.”

 

[Nationwide]

Carole, I'm all for it. But make no mistake, this is war. WE THE PEOPLE v. BANKERS/ELITES
I think we need to focus on their power source; pull the plug and they slowly lose power. ONE, go back to gold/silver in trade. pre-1965 US coins, goldmoney.com, barter, commodities, etc ... whatever it takes.
TWO, learn the true nature of the "income tax" - that it does NOT apply to most Americans. Don't withhold it and don't pay it if it's not INCOME as statutorily defined.
www.losthorizons.com

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

how about getting them to put 2 prices on everything - what they have to charge and what it costs without taxes and the costs of complying with regulations added in.

refusing to do business with the government or having 2 prices, one for the government and one for citizens. The one for the government being twice the other.

tax strike, simply not charging or paying taxes in mass.

others?

-t

 

[Kludge]

Walmart would be the only retailer left in existence.

 

[Frederick B]

A freind of mine use to own a small compressor manufactoring company. Our "Asian Friends" would always pirate their designs and import the same compressor cheeply to America.

What did our "Congressional Freinds" really do inforce internatonal patents?
Nothing, zero, nada, zip.

Congress stole a lot of money from my friend and it was'nt China,
I see very little difference beween common shop-lifters and most congressmen.

 

[cbc58]

I agree that something must be done.

The problem is, and has been, that only a small fraction of the poplulation really understands what is happening, how we're getting taken, and how bad things really are. They won't "get it" until things have fallen apart and it affects them profoundly and personally.

We are a nation of laws. Laws are made by politicians and the only way we are going to get anything changed is to a.) convince the politicians to change them... or b.) change the politicians.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Good idea, as long as the corrupt US Chamber of Commerce is not involved in any way.

How do we measure a small business? Number of employees? Gross sales?

 

[kpitcher]

Usually small business is 500 employees or less.

Being part of a family business I can say that even 1 day of non-productivity would be hard, not just on the business but on the employees. But the big problem is that the chain stores will stay open. If you can't visit the local small business hardware store and have to drive to Home Despot, that could be losing a customer for good.

It'd be easier to try a campaign for some educational outreach, perhaps some slick handouts with every sale, banners, posters, even website banner and links on every small biz website.

 

[idiom]

The difficulty in the incremental approach is that public opinion and government legislation are faster.

 

[Mosheh Thezion]

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as crazy as it sounds.... it would immediately solve the problem... world wide.

-MEMAT