Combat Ranting (formerly known as Famicom Mini)

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Right, like conservatives do so much for small businesses... the tax cuts might help a little but I think getting them access to free, or at least cheaper, health care for their workers would help more. You know, like they have in the rest of the first world?

Giving people the free health care that Europe does would also require taking seventy percent of employee's paychecks for taxes like Europe does, which would ruin our economy like Europe's is ruined.

The issue here isn't what conservatives do to help, it's what liberals do to destroy. Conservatives are busy enough preventing that. Small businesses are merely another facet of capitalism, and liberals, in theory anyway, despise and abhor the capitalist system and would love nothing more than to see it end forever, but tolerate it because it works so incredibly well.

But neither liberals nor conservatives can save small business. Small and independent business ownership is dying merely because the modern economic existence has decreasing demand for it. There was a time, in the past, when individual merchants decried the first joint-stock companies (what we call 'small business' today, but such certainly was not the case then) because the efficiency and profit-vs-risk ratio of forming a corporation was far greater than could be achieved by single businessmen, thus, the only ones that survived were, as today, specialists. Such change has benefits as well as downsides, but in the end, it works, and works well.

That's a part of how economics works. It has little to do with liberal and conservative, and much more to do with how socio-economics changes and merges as time goes on.