Honest people can look at which states indulged in the most draconian lockdowns and compare that to the political affiliations of the governors involved. You are not one of them, so you do not.
Some people look at the bigger picture of what was going on at the time and ask relevant questions.
Some people immediately look for a way to blame the party they oppose and look for data to support it.
Some people do a bit of both.
Which are you?
Consider this an exercise in logic….(remember learning that…in the ancient days where we walked miles to school everyday in 8 foot snow drifts and had to use punch cards and mainframe computers?)
Here is your claim: The IRS is hiring more people so they can target small businesses.
Question: What evidence do you have to support that?
Here is how you’ve supported that claim so far, paraphrased.
Because the lockdowns hurt small businesses and the states with the strictest lockdowns were run by Democrats and bunch of very wealthy elites who (presumably) donate heavily to Dems profited from the lockdowns and want to sink small businesses therefore the Dems want to further destroy small businesses by sic ing the IRS on them.
Pretty far fetched. Are you sure you aren’t a partisan?
None of it explains why the Bezos of the world would care about small businesses much lesser target them for special IRS attention. Most of the the time they either buy them out or suffocate them. (Don’t take that to mean I support or like technocrats any more than any other ‘crats, I support more regulation).
Honest people can look at the world's richest individuals like Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and the rest of the technocrats, note not only which party they support but the windfall they received from Democrat policies. You are not one of them, so you don't.
This makes even less sense. There are a lot of big moneyed interests out that give huge donations to Dems, Pubs, and quite often both. Many receive ”windfalls” from Pub and/or Dem policies. Many receive little. You realize Trump is in that category of rich as well as are the Koch brothers (well, the remaining one).
You sure you are honest?
Honest people can see how Walmarts, Home Depots and other large businesses profited from being kept open while small businesses selling the very same products were closed down. You are not one of them so you don't.
If we were having an HONEST conversation (are you capable of that?) you would find that you and I likely agree on the behavior of these increasingly larger and larger conglomerates and the ability of any real competition, much less small small businesses to succeed. Look at media for example, most of it now owned by a handful of huge entities. Goodbye local news. I want to see a complete overhaul of anti trust laws and some real enforcement instead of looking the other way while pocketing donations.
How about you?
As far as your personal comments aimed at me, I am NOT in lockstep with republicans. You are merely projecting there since you are an extreme left idealogue and so assume anybody who disagrees with you is an extreme right idealogue.
Did you overlook your own contributions here?
I happen to see neither party as serving the needs of small businesspeople like me. It's just that the democrat party has gone completely globalist, is working towards the great reset and is by far the more dangerous of the two working against people like me.
The very fact that you refer to the “Great Reset” speaks volumes.
I’m not to familiar with the concept so I looked it up.
Here is what Wikipedia says:
The
Great Reset Initiative is an economic recovery plan drawn up by the
World Economic Forum (WEF) in response to the
COVID-19 pandemic.
[1] The project was launched in June 2020, with a video featuring the then Prince of Wales
Charles released to mark its launch.
[2] The initiative's stated aim is to facilitate rebuilding from the global COVID-19 crisis in a way which prioritises sustainable development.
[3]
WEF chief executive officer
Klaus Schwab described three core components of the Great Reset: creating conditions for a "stakeholder economy"; building in a more "resilient, equitable, and sustainable" way, utilising
environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics; and "harness[ing] the innovations of the
Fourth Industrial Revolution."
[4][5] In her speech opening the dialogues,
International Monetary Fund director
Kristalina Georgieva listed three key aspects of a sustainable response to COVID-19:
green growth, smarter growth, and fairer growth.
[6][3]
"The Great Reset" was to be the theme of the 2021 World Economic Forum annual summit in
Davos, Switzerland, scheduled for January 2021.
[7] Due to disruption from COVID-19, the summit was postponed to May 2021, and again to 2022.
[8][9] The Davos 2022 theme was "History at a Turning Point", and the summit was dominated by the
Russian invasion of Ukraine.
[10]
The Great Reset Initiative, and the World Economic Forum more generally,
[11] have been criticised by some commentators for promoting economic deregulation and a greater role in policy for unrepresentative private businesses, particularly large
multinational corporations, at the expense of
government institutions.
[12][13] Other commentators held that the Great Reset, if achieved, would lead to an ultra-conservative, "neo-medieval world health" order
[14] or
crony capitalism.
[15]
