The War on Small Business: How the Government Used the Pandemic to Crush the Backbone of America

سال‌هاست، بوروکرات‌های دولتی به دنبال راه‌هایی برای نابودی مشاغل کوچک هستند. با کرونا، آنها بالاخره شانس خود را پیدا کردند.

در سال 2020، اقتصاد آمریکا بزرگترین فروپاشی مالی تاریخ را تجربه کرد. اما در حالی که مین استریت بی‌سابقه بود، بازار سهام همچنان به بالاترین حد خود ادامه داد. چگونه ممکن است چنین باشد؟ پاسخ این است که دولت در حین حمایت از وال استریت و مهندسی تثبیت تاریخی قدرت و ثروت، محدودیت‌های ظالمانه‌ای را بر مشاغل کوچک اعمال کرده است.

این نیست. یک مشکل جدید در طول آخرین بحران مالی، واشنگتن بانک‌های بزرگ را نجات داد و گفت که آنها «بزرگ‌تر از آن هستند که شکست بخورند». زمانی که دولت فدرال در نهایت قانون CARES را در سال 2020 به اجرا درآورد، آشکارا به نفع ثروتمندان و دارای ارتباط خوب بود و نشان داد که این بانک‌ها کوچک هستند. کسب و کارها خیلی کوچک بودند که اهمیتی نداشتند. مردم در سراسر طیف سیاسی دائماً از ظلم تجارت بزرگ شکایت دارند و اشتباه نمی کنند. با این حال، بسیاری فکر می کنند دولت راه حل است. در واقع، دولت مشکل است.

در جنگ با کسب و کارهای کوچک، کارول راث، کارآفرین از سوء استفاده‌های فراوان از قدرت که در طول همه‌گیری کووید-19 به کسب‌وکارهای کوچک تحمیل شده است، رونمایی می‌کند. صاحبان مشاغل کوچک به دلیل تلاش برای امرار معاش به زندان انداخته شدند. حقوق فردی کنار گذاشته شد. دولت بزرگ بهترین کاری را که انجام می دهد انجام داد

For years, government bureaucrats have been looking for ways to destroy small businesses. With coronavirus, they finally had their chance.

In 2020, the American economy suffered the biggest financial collapse in history. But while Main Street suffered like never before, the stock market continued to reach new highs. How could this be? The answer is that government had slapped oppressive restrictions on small businesses while propping up Wall Street and engineering a historic consolidation of power and wealth.

This isn't a new problem. During the last financial crisis, Washington bailed out large banks, saying they were "too big to fail." When the federal government finally pushed out the CARES Act in 2020, it clearly favored the wealthy and well-connected, showing that small businesses were too small to matter. People across the political spectrum constantly complain about the tyranny of big business, and they're not wrong. However, too many think government is the solution. In reality, government is the problem.

In The War on Small Business, entrepreneur Carol Roth unveils the many abuses of power inflicted on small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Small business owners were thrown in jail for trying to make a living. Individual rights were discarded. Big government did what it does best—intentionally protect the rich and powerful.

This is the most underreported story coming out of the pandemic. The government chose winners and losers, who would thrive and who would fight to survive, based on not data or science, but based on clout and connections. This enabled the government, with the aid of the Federal Reserve, to oversee the largest wealth transfer in history from Main Street to Wall Street. The issues started long ago and continue today with a highly tilted playing field that favors those "in the club" to the detriment of the average Americans.

This book is about the Davids vs. the Goliaths and the decentralization that can help the small, independent businesses and individuals participate in wealth creation.

If Americans don't wake up and stop it, politicians will continue to produce policies that intensify their war on small business and individuals and all that stands in the way of centralized power and control.