The real enemy of the small-medium businesses

[no more banksters]

A very simplified perception propagated by the mechanisms of the establishment, is that the state is the enemy of the private sector (generally), and that further taxes (generally) lead to further damage for the economy.

This general trend, was particularly profound in the Greece of crisis, the last five years. Since the beginning of the crisis, the bank-occupied mainstream media directed all the propaganda against the "bad" public sector, in order to hide the responsibilities of the bankers who have been bailed-out with billions, and the local oligarchs, who are still part of a corrupted system inside the country.

Neoliberal politicians both from the Popular Right, Social Democrats, and other minor neoliberal parties, as well as mainstream journalists and economists, were saying that businesses need tax reliefs in order to survive. Through this absolutely simplified and generalized everyday "brainwash", the mouthpieces of the system managed to unite all the range of the private sector (from the smallest business to the largest multinational) against the public sector “enemy”.

What these systemic servants didn't bother to specify, is that when they speak about tax reliefs, they mean exclusively the big corporations and multinationals in the name of "preserving jobs". Indeed, some of the policies imposed by Greece's troika creditors (IMF, ECB, European Commission), were directing the tax increases towards local small-medium businesses in order to eliminate them. The target was simple: to destroy every last sign of competition in favor of the big capital.

http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2016/03/the-real-enemy-of-small-medium.html

[darkwing]

1. Tax relief doesn't keep the lights on.

What will help businesses is more customers (with money). If your business is losing money because nobody is buying then your taxes are already low. Lowering them further will do nothing to help. I think this is something many politicians don't quite grasp.