Contrary To GOP Claims, Small Businesses Say Taxes And Regulation Aren’t Holding Back Hiring

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Contrary To GOP Claims, Small Businesses Say Taxes And Regulation Aren’t Holding Back Hiring
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/09/02/310818/small-business-contradicts-gop-taxes-regulation/

Predictably, Republicans reacted to today’s dismal jobs number — which showed that zero net jobs were created in August — by blaming the supposed avalanche of taxes and regulations put in place by the Obama administration. “Private-sector job growth continues to be undermined by the triple threat of higher taxes, more failed ‘stimulus’ spending, and excessive federal regulations. Together, these Washington policies have created a fog of uncertainty that’s left small businesses unable to hire and American families worried about the future,” said House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) in a statement today.

However, McClatchy conducted a survey of small business and found that they don’t blame taxes or regulations for their hesitancy to hire:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/09/01/122865/regulations-taxes-arent-killing.html#ixzz1WnAbTmEQ

Politicians and business groups often blame excessive regulation and fear of higher taxes for tepid hiring in the economy. However, little evidence of that emerged when McClatchy canvassed a random sample of small business owners across the nation.

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None of the business owners complained about regulation in their particular industries, and most seemed to welcome it. Some pointed to the lack of regulation in mortgage lending as a principal cause of the financial crisis that brought about the Great Recession of 2007-09 and its grim aftermath.

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1. K&R. Glad they correctly single out LACK of regulation causing the Bush Crash.

a.k.a. The Great Recession.

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2. Kick

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3. The GOP are against hiring. They don't want any hiring. They've worked hard to kill jobs. n/t

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4. K&R and shared on social media! n/t

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5. Worker's Comp

We should instead have single payer health care insurance and require employers to contribute a portion of each employee's insurance premium costs under a single payer plant. The medical treatment costs now paid out of Worker's Comp could then be folded into the employee's regular insurance coverage. There would be no Worker's Comp insurance for medical costs. And there could be a separate fund for Worker's Comp disability compensation.

That would reduce employer's costs a great deal. Worker's Comp costs employers quite a lot of money, and it would be better for employees if they could just go to their primary care physician for their work-related and non-work-related health care.

I could not figure out why Congress did not deal with this while dealing with the reform of the health insurance system.

Negligence or intentional failure to obey safety regulations on the part of employers in managing the workplace should be taken care of through ordinary tort law in my view. Why should an employee be blamed if the employer is clearly at faul? And why should the employer have to pay if the employee is not following the workplace rules?

But, now, we have a complicated parallel system of Worker's Comp and ordinary health care that costs employers a lot of money -- unnecessarily.