Apparently no one wants to visit a city under military occupation & subject to the violent activities of #ICE.
Thanks, Trump.
#Tourism supports a lot of #SmBiz in #DC & you just wrote a death penalty for many.
But then, you not only don't care, you're no doubt glad.
https://www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-news/washington-dc/dc-takeover/dc-hotel-bookings-tourism-on-the-decline-amid-federal-crime-crackdown-law-enforcement-surge/
US furniture builder & #SmBiz owner, Michael Howard of Howard Family Designs in #Michigan, explains to #CBC the lumber trade's been so intricately intertwined btwn #Canada & the US for centuries, it's not feasible to find alternate providers to avoid impact of #TrumpTariffs, which as a consequence will increase costs for both US & Canada.
Galen Druke to Alex Witt just now on Dems losing working class vote:
Tho Dems won Latino voters overall in 2024, there was more drift to the right among Latino men.
We're seeing less racial polarization and more polarization along educational lines.
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Which seems really weird if you buy into the stereotype that many Latino men are construction workers.
But if you think of how many are small business owners...
Maybe made sense in 2024. But how about now w/Trump #Tariffs' impact on #SmBiz?
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Senate #Republicans are responsible for stonewalling add'l #disaster funds requests by #SBA since Sept 2023.
As a result, SBA ran out of $ for disaster relief loans to #SmBiz victims of #Helene & #Milton.
Now do-nothing #GOP try pointing finger at SBA, haul em on the carpet to distract from their miserable little selves.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4940086-senate-republicans-raise-questions-after-funds-for-disaster-loans-exhausted/
Small businesses need to recognize it's the Democratic Party, not the Republican Party, who care about them.
#DoNothingCongress = the #DoNothingGOP.
#Georgia State Election Board advances plan to make #Elections2024 ballot pics public, even before certification.
Can't even believe #GA already makes ballot images available online. Whatever happened to the #SecretBallot? What's the point of voting booths?
Talk about #VoterSuppression and #VoterIntimidation - esp in your small towns. But not just sm towns. Your kids could get bullied, you could lose your job, your #SmBiz could wither on the vine, your family shunned.
Q: What's a "Kentucky Manhunt" ?
A: Hope the guy doesn't have food or water, will just walk out of the woods & give himself up.
That's literally what the Sheriff just said at a press conference abt I-75 suspect Joseph A. Couch, 32.
Meanwhile...
Schools are closed, everyone's expected to hunker down at home & call police if they hear anyone outside.
What're working parents s'posed to do abt their jobs & kids w/no classes to go to? And #SmBiz w/no customers?
Pray?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kentucky-shooting-manhunt-joseph-couch-suspect/
@Irreverent_B what you read as waste can also be seen as difference. variety, plurality, individual expression. the only way you get a completely efficient system is a closed system that doesn't permit anything different & individual to mix things up. I think #smbiz #capitalism can be creative and allows us to express ourselves and serve one another. both art & #smbiz are messy! #monopoly (another closed system) is the enemy, not the freeplay of ideas. i think there's a middle way.
@chopsstephens @tanepiper I think it's much much harder to use the govt to break up monopolies than it is to strategically use the market to do so. and it scares the crap out of entrepreneur-voters to think the govt is going to come smash & grab their biz. Yes, we need to find our balls and tax but the best tax law is that which incentivizes the kind of economy we want to grow in our garden. I suggest we want to grow many #SmBiz, #coop and #ESOP because then the citizens would own the market.
@chopsstephens @tanepiper Different server instances are like having many #Smbiz that can innovate and fill in, creating specialization and many choices. Above all, in both #democracy and #capitalism we want free choice. The greatest of those choices (and hardest!) is to say "take this job and shove it" to the man and start your own SmBiz. if only progressives understood this we'd win every election and take over the economy.
No one wants their taxes to go up. Our tax heavy platform will naturally scare voters away -- and apparently they will vote for election deniers and fascists if it suits their pocketbook!
I hope #progressives will consider being #SmBiz owner's best friend, putting them in the center of a positive view of #CitizenOwnership of the #AmericanDream.
I think it would get a lot of voters back onboard and it actually charts a course for how to achieve the #EconomicJustice goals we all want.
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#Organizedconsumers is the other part of this.
We didn't need anti-trust regulation to break up twitter. We just choose to go elsewhere.
#Organizedconsumers can get instant responses.
Just the threat of #boycott causes corps to change course immediately.
Imagine if instead of amazon, we had a federated buying forum where all #Smbiz could list their goods, USPS delivers, and no algorithm enriches a billionaire?
#StrategicBuying should be empowered by #progressive policies
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The reason magats are calling us fascists is they fear the centralization that we shouldn't want either.
We can lead with a new #Progressive #American Dream, clearly defining that the optimal market under our watch would prioritize #WorkerOwned biz & aggressively incentivize large multi-state corps to #EmployeeOwnership.
Incentivize means giving tax breaks to #SmBiz and #EO biz and penalizing those that don't spread the equity around.
Give workers a paycheck and a profit check
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A #SmBiz, #EmployeeOwned, decentralized marketplace is exactly what we ought to be championing if we want to achieve #EconomicJustice and disrupt the foundations upon which maga paranoia rests. We can't achieve #EconomicJustice by taxing all corps and giving the $ away from the federal govt. administration of that would be horrible and fraught w questions of fairness. It should be done by a citizen's take-over of the market from the ground up -- by prioritizing worker-owned businesses. 4/
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A #SmallBusiness accountant w passionate opinions about what I think a positive #Progressive or #Democratic #Economics should be about, I think we're missing the mark and chasing #SmBiz voters into the hands of the right. will rant accordingly.
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@BlackAzizAnansi it will take a shared enthusiasm over a new American dream that all voters - including most of the right - would believe in. It will take a leader able to chart a middle course and tell voters on both sides realities they don’t want to hear in a way both can still sign on to. People vote w their $$$ not their best interests. Sorry. That’s the reality. We drive entrepreneurial voters into the arms of the right every day. We should embrace #smbiz voters, they’re us!
