I recently received a comment on my blog from Trenton Powers. Naturally, when people comment on my blog and leave a backlink, I will go check out their blog. Two posts on his blog are certainly worth discussing.
In one post he says this:
As a runner-up to the Milford Regional Chamber of Commerce Businessperson of The Year in 2007 I know a thing or two about business and economics. For instance I know that this purported letter from a conspicuously anonymous, alleged reader of the reactionary conservative rag, the National Review is hogwash:
Small business will start to hire when one big thing happens.Sales Growth. End of story.
This goes beyond simple intellectual dishonesty and charges head-first to the realm of deliberate misrepresentation. There is no correlation between small business’ hiring practice and sales growth. Only the presence of robust regulation can create an environment conducive to increased employment opportunity in the private sector. By extension, government expansion is a necessity if one wishes to create a job-friendly atmosphere.
In another post he says this:
Just to take the previous post a step further, wouldn’t it fix a whole butt load of problems if government were to mandate that small business hire people if they earn profits above an arbitrary threshold?
For instance, its really not unreasonable for a family owned polymer-injection business, or a start-up pinking enterprise to be required to bring on another worker if that business makes more than $20,000 in profits, or they could be required to take on a migrant worker if they pass a $10,000 profit threshold.
This is not a bad idea.
You can see from the comments that I made, that I think that this is a bad idea. Trenton defends this idea as outside the box thinking. However, in the Age of Obama, I can’t think of a clearer example of knee-jerk, inside-the-box thinking than to conclude that the best way to solve a problem is government intervention. I am curious what the readers of the Independent Bloghorn think of Trenton’s idea.










