Tax Laws / Complexity
25% (1731 Votes)
25%
Healthcare
18% (1265 Votes)
18%
Access to Capital
10% (678 Votes)
10%
Government Contracts
5% (360 Votes)
5%
International Trade
6% (386 Votes)
6%
Disaster Planning & Recovery
3% (201 Votes)
3%
Federal Regulations
14% (940 Votes)
14%
Minimum Wage Requirements
8% (581 Votes)
8%
Climate Change
5% (365 Votes)
5%
Other
6% (448 Votes)
6%
Answers (1-10)
Make sense?
Infrastructure ~ (highways, bridges, waterways, gas lines ` all way past due for repair and upkeep)
Affordable living ~ (wages increases not matching to the cost of living increases such as rents, medical/pharma, higher education, energy. There are homeless on the street and some are working and can't afford a roof)
Senior care ~ again affordability of the basics. Some seniors lost their nest egg due to high medical, scams by crooks and bankers, disability, disasters/emergencies etc so all they have is Social Security, they are also increasing in homelessness and suicides/depression - what do they do with no family and are having major mental challenges due to Dementia and Alzheimer's how will they survive?)
Student debt ~ the more Millennials and Generation Z are weighed down by debt the less our economy will be stimulated - less American home buyers.
Affordable Medical - Lower medication and procedure cost
Better care for our vets
Climate Change - It is real
These things, if corrected and addressed with action, will make America Great again.
What are your plans in addressing these National issues?
Repeal the 17th amendment so we can get our balance of power back.
Teach all over the nation that inalienable rights come from God, not government.
It makes hiring and keeping qualified experienced people hard when an employee with a family to consider has to pay out almost 25% of their pay just to keep healthcare.
The fact that small businesses have such a higher per person cost is crazy when compared to larger companies. I came from a large manufacturing company back into the construction industry and the cost of healthcare for myself and my employees across the board is at least 3 times the amount for the same coverage through the same company.
I believe that allowing small businesses to group together in order to achieve a better group rate would be at the very least a small step to easing the healthcare burden.
But in order to truly strive to correct the issue there should be a standard per person rate based on the coverage so that the individual rate is the same for small business as it is for big business.
Another issue we are going to see is the minimum wage increase. When/If the minimum wage is increased to $15/hr we are going to start seeing less opportunity for people joining the work force for the first time due to a lack of experience and/or a companies willingness to pay a higher rate for a untested workforce. The other side of the same coin is that due to the required rate increase we will start to see higher costs which could easily cause things like home ownership to become unattainable for some. The long and short of it is that with the wage increase we will see a cost of living increase which means in the long run someone who makes $8-$10/hr now will be no better off when they are making $15/hr because they will be paying that much more for the same products that they are using now. What we should be looking at is ways to make the cost of living less of a burden on lower income households and teaching people how to live within the means rater then living on credit. We as a society have grown to accustom to "charging it" instead of getting what we need based on what we have to spend.
We need to learn from history and understand that throwing money at a problem will not fix the problem, in fact it has a greater chance of making it worse.
Educating someone to live a lifestyle that they can afford is going to put them in a better position then giving the a pay increase that they may not deserve. After that teach them to rise on their own merit through hard work and putting in the time is how we will make a sustainable society instead of an entitled one.
My question is What will you do to help small businesses?