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🗓️ 14 July 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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0:00.0 | Good afternoon, Michael Malice here. Let that be your welcome for the next hour. This is |
0:28.3 | an episode I've been champion at the bit to have happened without even realizing it. Because on June 22nd, |
0:37.8 | excuse me, July 22nd, 2020, a year ago, I tweeted out, there has never been as sustained, prolonged |
0:47.4 | attack on small business as we've seen in 2020. And lo and behold, a brilliant woman, who many of |
0:55.5 | you know by the name of Carol Roth, released a book with that title called The War on Small Business. |
1:03.4 | I have not read it yet. I cannot wait to read it. I have to finish this book about Stalin first, |
1:09.5 | which is probably going to be somewhat of an easy segue, because we saw the liquidation of the |
1:13.7 | Kulaks here in 2020 by the state. Carol, thank you so much for taking the time. My pleasure. Thank |
1:20.3 | you so much for having me. And I am so excited for our discussion. So let's give you the softball |
1:26.2 | question. Okay, COVID is a pandemic. It affects every country on earth. You want grandma to die. |
1:34.3 | This isn't a war on small business. What 2020 was was a war to save lives. And if the cost is |
1:41.8 | some people are out of work, if the choice is being out of work or not having a life, it's not a |
1:48.1 | hard choice. Governor Cuomo, in fact, made that exact comparison during a press conference, |
1:52.5 | somewhat sarcastically. It doesn't sound unreasonable. What is wrong with that line of thinking? |
1:58.0 | First, I am a grammar killer. No, just kidding. I'm not a grammar killer. So the issue is that in |
2:05.8 | 2020, you had a situation where the government decided who was essential and who was not essential, |
2:12.8 | who was going to thrive, who was going to fight to survive, and it was not based on data, |
2:18.3 | and it was not based on science, it was based on political clout and connections. And by doing this, |
2:26.4 | they enabled this gigantic transfer of wealth from Main Street to Wall Street. I mean, if you |
2:33.8 | wanted to say, okay, we needed to lock some of the people down, because let's be clear, we didn't |
2:39.3 | lock everyone down. If you really thought we needed lockdowns, like Amazon's warehouse didn't |
2:43.9 | lock down, the weed dispensary that was illegal a couple years ago didn't lock down. It was essential. |
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