I was referring to big business, conglomerates, corporations, banks etc, not small businesses. Government/big business are practically one and the same although I should have clarified that. Obviously that doesn't apply to small businesses as they aren't the ones with the power and suffer through all sorts of regulations imposed by government although that's often dictated by economic climate as much as anything. I'm sorry for your wife's business as I've seen the impact on several over here over the years but whatever administration was in power it would have been the same.
What exact regulations are you referring to here? Please expound or link.
It depends on what you mean by 'openly taught'. As far as I'm aware, schools aren't supposed to be proselytizing on any faith although teaching that there's more than one is simply fact. The notion that Christianity is being 'suppressed' only holds if you think it's the only religion that should be mentioned in education. Else, no.
Funny, certain far right zealots on here want to impose their particular brand of 'righteous regulation' as part of civic government to the point of executing homosexuals and adulterers along with other laws that impose on people's freedoms. Would you call them socialists too? Don't get me wrong, I'm fed up with plenty of government regulations that impact on life but it's not like we live in a totalitarian state that would make you disappear just for a dissenting voice either.
Back in 2013 it was estimated that the business regs then in place, and Obama laid them on even thicker during the last couple of years of his administration, required 772,000 full-time employees a year to comply with the paperwork. Now, here we have 3/4 of a million people being paid for producing nothing. Those are wages and benefits paid to produce no income for the businesses that have to hire them. That means that those businesses, without all that regulation, could have produced more product, higher profit, and thus paid higher wages, or created more jobs. Regulation is nothing but a serious drain on an economy.
Take a look at the following link. Look at all the money that flows into doing nothing but satisfying paper work. All of that labor produces no wealth for it produces absolutely zip. A company making widgets makes no more widgets because of everything they spend on paperwork. It's just an expense that has to be paid for which ends up in higher costs to the consumer to buy the widgets the company makes. Take a look at the costs per employee to comply with regs. This is for large corporations and for small businesses.
https://moneymorning.com/2012/11/20/the-new-obama-regulations-headed-for-u-s-business-in-2013/
Think about some company that employes 30,000 people and has to pay that $8000+ cost every year. Figured at an even $8 grand per employee that's an expense of $240 million a year. Now what company couldn't use that kind of cash to upgrade production equipment, build a new building, invest in training programs for their employees, pay higher wages, etc..... Is that what you call no big deal for big business?
How about the small businessman who gets hit with $10,000+ per employee. A business with 4 employees could hire another employee at $35K a year and produce more product or sell greater services. You think that isn't a major drain on the economy? Small businesses are the major job creators in the US.
This is the sure result of socialism. it is a massive drain on every economy. Europe wonders why it is such a slow-growth economy and why their economies stagnate. Well, the answer is Brussels. Once Obama got elected and his policies slowed the US economy down to almost nothing that business environment was called "the new normal". Can you even wonder why when you look at all the regulation he forced on business?
Oh, and the legislation passed that gives government bureacrats the ability to take over a business and throw an owner in jail if he squawks publicly? Dodd-Frank. And don't think that, at least in the US, that a person can't be made to disappear without due process. Obama signed two separate EOs that did this. One said all he had to do was accuse a person of terrorism and without any due process they were in jail until he decided to let them go. And he signed another EO that let him kill anyone he accused of terrorism with no due process. I don't know if they are still effective now, but under Obama's administration at least the government could disappear anyone they wanted on nothing more than an accusation.
Pure totalitarianism and blatantly unconstitutional.
