The philosophical question in my last post was related to ideas about deregulation.
If we look back for the past 30 years of deregulation what has it brought us? Higher gasoline prices, our jobs being shipped overseas, and the destruction of livable wage jobs for our people.
Like the Woodbury farmer's dilemma with the bottled water facility, regulation of small and large industry would create a level playing field for all participants. I would argue that deregulation actually hurts most small businesses (farmer's) with fewer than 1000 employees.
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Why?
Because big business, billionaires, and big oil have effectively monopolized the market for their products and services leaving small businesses only the scraps to survive on.
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Why is regulation good then?
Because it gives small businesses the tools to effectively compete with larger businesses in providing goods and services to the market; effectively putting more money in the hands of folks that actually spend their money in the local communities that the small businesses exist in.
What does this have to do with local Woodbury District 56 politics?
Woodbury’s current legislators, for the most part, are strong proponents of deregulation. This attitude has led to the outsourcing of good livable wage jobs in our community, higher gasoline prices, and actually hurts, not helps small businesses in our community.
In short, deregulation favors big business at the expense of small businesses in our community, as the farmer’s dilemma attempts to illustrate.
