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Politics : The Citizens Manifesto
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To: Road Walker who wrote (212)6/20/2005 11:05:40 AM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (3) of 492
 
One way to encourage family owned business would be to level the playing field and outlaw quantity discounts.

Once again, I think that targeting an indirect operation just causes shifts to other loopholes. If there is going to be regulation it should not appear arbitrary and capricious and be open to smart lobbiests putting in obscure wording that applies only to them.

There could be a law, for instance, which limited the amount of ownership by one family, to a certain amount or if the company is worth more than that amount to a certain percentage of the company. Now I realize that such ideas are immediately hit with knee-jerk reactions that this is some kind of socialist intervention on private property, but in fact a completely laizifare approach will lead to fewer but larger businesses because of the positive feedback and the fact that complexity favors the entity large enough to devote significant resources to deal with the complexity.

A stable middle class does not come by accident or chance. There was no significant middle class in America before the reforms of Teddy Roosevelt and his cousin Franklin. It isn't just going to appear because it's some kind of natural law. It will appear only if it is a goal of society.

TP
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