 | Sundiszno (30)
05/15/2005 | Well, yeah, but this seems to be a somewhat loaded statement. There's an inference that friendly means giving business an unfair advantage vis-a-vis the worker and/or the consumer. What's the flip of this statement - that Democrats are business hostile? I don't think that they are, although they sure make a lot of fuss trying to convince voters that they are for the common man. Right - sure is nice to know that so many liberal politicians have never had, nor do they now have, any connection with business at all. They all made their money by working on an assembly line or working for someone else, do not own stocks in businesses, or did not inherit money from family businesses. Those comments, of course, apply to Republican politicians as well, but at least they acknowledge that business had some part to play in their good fortune.
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 | EschewObfuscation (61)
05/12/2005 |  The issue pre-dates George Bush. Conservatives believe in a laissez-faire attitude toward business, which means that businesses should be able to conduct their commerce with a minimum of government interference and regulation. When businesses become abusive or irresponsible, the court system becomes the regulator of behavior. It's difficult to argue today that businesses are not over-regulated (Income Tax, OSHA, Workman's Comp, Affirmative Action, MBE's, WBE's, etc. ) but it is easy to say that while the burden of government intrusion is substantial and very expensive, the American taxpayer (as well as business owners) are not efficiently served. The waste that occurs, particularly at the federal level of government, is enormous and corruption and irresponsible behavior goes on with mind-numbing consistency. If we're going fund this level of regulation, it certainly should be on a more de-centralized level (state & local) where the taxpayers, theoretically, can keep a closer eye on how their tax dollars are spent and what return is yielded. A federal bureaucracy is the hardest to evaluate objectively and is absolutely impoosible to terminate. It just gets bigger and stronger every year.
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 | magellan (153)
05/11/2005 | Another conservative mainstay. Be nice to the businesses and they will prosper, hiring more people and creating the wealth. This is one conservative principle that Bush has taken to heart, approving record hand outs to any company / industry with a good lobbyist.
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