Click below to watch our latest Small Businesses for Sensible Regulations’ highlight reel of local tv interviews over the past year.
Click below to watch our latest Small Businesses for Sensible Regulations’ highlight reel of local tv interviews over the past year.
Former Senator Blanche Lincoln appeared on MSNBC’s Jansing and Co. to discuss regulations and the economy.
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Owner, The Best Connection
Reno, NV
“The thing that is most concerning to me as a business owner is the lack of predictability as far as regulations. The more regulation you have, the less people you can hire because there is more risk, more unpredictability.”
Owner, One Hour Koretizing
Rocky Mount, NC
“We have to keep up with every ounce [of chemical cleaners] that we buy, have to have all this paperwork, so that if you as a regulator walk into this business tomorrow then you have about seven or eight books to look through, and we have to keep all those books.”
Somerset, PA
“Unfortunately, OSHA has a one-size-fits-all attitude and so we have to go through a myriad of checklists daily…simply to be in business and do business. It adds tremendously to our cost of operation.”
Chris Hurn, coalition member and owner of Mercantile Capital Corporation, attended the NFIB Small Business Summit in May 2012 and spoke with us about the impacts of federal regulations on his small business.Watch Chris’ video below to learn more about his story.
Ty Baker-Baumann owns Rebsco, Inc. in Greenville, OH. In this exclusive video, produced by the National Federation of Independent Business, she details the impact that burdensome regulations have on her business.
“In my community – small business, large business – I don’t know any of my customers who don’t want to be compliant, who don’t want to provide proper safety gear for their employees, who don’t want to train their people to be safe and train their people to be safe and work effectively. And yet, you’re constantly feeling like no matter what you do it will never be good enough because the target is always moving.”
NFIB held a small business tour at Lubromation in Charlotte, North Carolina. The event featured Small Businesses for Sensible Regulations coalition member Dale Dorsey, President of Lubromation and NFIB NC State Director Gregg Thompson. Check out the highlights below.
Perry, FL
Richard Schwab owns M.A. Rigoni, Inc, a logging and timber business founded in 1960 that employs 35 people in Perry, Florida. Recently Mr. Schwab has been forced to deal with expensive and complicated EPA regulations that have cost his business time and money.