Thursday, March 08, 2007

Size standards, burdensome regulation top complaints to House panel

The House Small Business Committee, chaired by Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.) is looking into how to make the federal government more responsive to the needs of small businesses. I have already chronicled the complaints of those multi-million dollar companies complaining they cannot compete with "larger" companies, so want to continue to be "small" businesses.

While I am a big believer in eliminating regulations, especially "burdensome" ones, and I agree that taxation is a big problem to small businesses (as is the minimum wage issue, social security, unemployment taxes and others) I think that in many cases federal oversight of small businesses is heavy-handed and often hampers innovation and the flexibility that small businesses need.

Perhaps we need a "Mom and Pop Business Administration" to help those businesses that are truly small and deserving of assistance in getting government contracts.

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