Wiseacre
Retired USAF Chief
100% CRAP.
Business won't come into the game until they feel the rules won't change.
And you can provide any data to support that claim? Like may be polls showing majority of businessmen putting changing rules as the biggest obstacle?
Now, businesses are worried about another recession. They will tighten in advance of business falling off.
You morons will never learn.
Came across a survey by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), who asked nearly 4000 small business owners to rank their biggest concerns. They do this report every 4 years, and uncertainty was new to the list. The following was lifted from the press release for the report:
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The top problem remains Cost of Health Insurance, which has historically been the No. 1 problem for small employers; 52 percent labeled it as critical. Nearly 40 percent of those surveyed said that economic uncertainty is the most critical problem, followed by 35 percent who identified Energy Costs, Except Electricity as critical for their firms; another 35 percent of owners named Uncertainty Over Government Actions as their most critical issue.
This years survey was conducted on the heels of the worst U.S. recession since the 1930s; historically high levels of unemployment and housing foreclosures, and historically low levels of consumer confidence and hiring still plague the small-business community, said Holly Wade, senior policy analyst and survey author. The high level of uncertainty cited by small employers helps to explain the sectors inability to recover and expand. Fears over increasing health insurance costs continue to dominate the list of concerns for small businesses, very much in spite of the presidents health insurance reform lawcertainly not an endorsement of the policy, nor a good sign for the future of the sector.
Uncertainty has emerged as a major hurdle to small-business recovery and growth, prompting the addition of two new problems, Uncertainty over Economic Conditions and Uncertainty over Government Actions to this years survey. Small-business owners ranked these two problems as the second and fourth (respectively) most severe problems facing their businesses. In the last four years, the federal government has enacted significant policy changes of an immense nature; their impact will continue as the regulatory system works to implement new policy directives. Uncertainty also surrounds pending government action on the expiring 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, the debt ceiling and the federal budget. All of these policy changes create a huge question mark for small-business owners, impeding their ability to make short and long-term business decisions
"Uncertainty" Dominates the Top Five Small-Business Concerns | NFIB