Harms small business
Commentary
The Great Regulation Charade
September 20, 2011
Cry Wolf Quotes
[L]egal costs alone of defending against class actions will impact disproportionately on small enterprises which rarely have the resources to employ the staff counsel uniformly found among larger companies.
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William B. Norris, Chamber of Commerce, Testimony, Consumer Subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee,” Chamber of Commerce Public Presentations.
How can we afford this? You can only charge so much for a hamburger, and then people will stop coming. I'm 52 and was hoping to do this until I retire, but the city is going to force me out of business.
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Richard Crain, owner of the Village Grill, a San Francisco restaurant, The San Francisco Chronicle.
In reviewing the proposed form mandated by S.51, it appears that much of the information required would not be useable….[and] The costs to small businesses of measuring such emissions would be staggering.
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B. Michel Robin, chairman of Government Affairs, Independent Lubricant Manufacturers Association.
We don’t want a lot of innocent small-business people who are trying to do the right thing to be hauled into court.
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David Rahr, chief House lobbyist for the National Federation of Independent Business. The New York Times.
