Politics: The Hidden Puppeteer of Small Businesses

“I’m not a businessman I’m a business, man, so let me handle my business damn” Jay-Z. In today’s society, politics tend to control how the world runs, which is corrupting the way Americans live their lives. Many small businesses fall into politicians’ hands, resulting in a practically government ran business. As politics continue to dominate the human population, corrupting many small businesses economic status, a result in a decline of their overall net pay is guaranteed. This is not fair for the many entrepreneurs that work hard to run a small business. If this is not stopped, politicians will continuously take advantage of small businesses. Politics are involved in everything done today; whether it is in a school, a sports team, the community, or at a local supermarket, politics can be seen everywhere. Becoming involved in politics is not hard, in fact, it is quite simple. One just needs to be electable. They need to have new ideas that will better the city or

The Philippine Normal University claims, “corruption causes wasteful dissipation of limited resources by increasing the cost of development because funds are channeled outside the government to private pockets”. The impact of corruption is very hard on the citizens of the United States and is known as the trickle down effect. The trickle down effect states when corruption of the government tickles down to the citizens that it will affect them negatively. This often causes increases in taxes, prices of products and goods, as well as hardship on the way of life for American citizens. According to The Balance, many republicans use trickle-down economics to guide policy. President Donald Trump proposed cutting taxes for the wealthy. Ultimately resulting in more taxes for both the lower and middle classes. This will not only affect city and state taxes but more importantly sales taxes within each individual