Enough regulations.
That’s the message the National Federation of Independent Business hopes to send with a recently-launched campaign that will hit North Carolina and eight other states.
Gregg Thompson, NFIB North Carolina director, said there is an impending “tidal wave” of some 4,100 new regulations that will affect small businesses around the state and country.
“As I have crossed the state, NFIB members and many others have said there are three main things holding them back,” Thompson said. “One is regulations, one is health care and one is taxes. ... There's a lot of uncertainty right now."
Thompson said the focus of the campaign will center on print and radio ads – the exact dollar amount of media buys has not been decided – and on getting small business owners in front of media to share their perspectives.
Aside from North Carolina, the campaign will have a presence in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Missouri, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
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complexity is a tax
August 3, 2012 - 5:03pm — Phillip_HugganThis is something I recently discovered. Compexity and complications in the economy are often purposefully initiated, or just happen, and this retards efficiency. The recent recession was caused by banking employees using a wall of complexity to cloak bad investment methodology (housing prices never increase forever is the simplified fix). The health care debate; it is almost impossible to fix your healthcare while making things simpler, thx to insurance accrued paperwork in the regulations over the yrs; policymakers would rather go broke than wade through the unpopular accounting.
This is where there is a benefit to GOP flat tax rates, and my country's RW platform of cutting our VAT 30%: it is simple to understand and can't be gamed. When I look at who is fighting simplicity, it is the health insurers and the Buffett tax-rate opponents: GOP.
When we are confronting real future challenges, it is helpful to have as much purchasing power as possible as well as clear info.