• WanderingThoughts@europe.pub
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    5 days ago

    Small-business owners are a major force behind the U.S. swing vote. Nearly a quarter are registered Democrats and 38% are Republicans, according to the National Small Business Association’s 2024 Politics of Small Business Survey

    Small-business owners’ support for Trump was based, in large part, on opposition to the current regulatory regime.

    In addition to promising a lighter regulatory touch, Trump campaigned on lowering taxes, which small business applauds.

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    Doesn’t sound like an infinitesimally small number of business owners.

    • KT-TOT@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 days ago

      Every small business I’ve been exposed to has been more than happy to exploit their employees. Small places with Less than 10 employees or large regional chains with a few thousand.

      Doesn’t matter if they’re ostensibly ‘liberal’ (read:pro corporate). The owners still support Republican policies because they like the deregulation and salivate at the degradation of labor rights.

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      “I support Trump but I didn’t think the tariffs/deportations would hurt my business”

      is what the infinitesimal portion is about. Only a very, very small sliver of absolute morons are saying that. Everyone else knew exactly what was going to happen and what impacts it would have.

      thanks for a source showing business owners mostly reflect the rest of society, though.