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Ed Schultz slams Florida state senate bill that will kill small business (VIDEO)

April 27, 2014 By Egberto Willies

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Big Money Killing Small Business

This is a story that should be covered widely. It really shows the corrosive nature of money in politics. It shows how it is the intent of big business to kill competition from small business. Florida Senate Bill 1714 will do just that.

WFTS Tampa Bay reports the following.

The bill in question would legalize 64-ounce growlers, but it would also ban brewers that produce more than 2,000 kegs a year from selling their bottles and cans directly. Instead, they’d have to go through a distributor who would sell it back to them at a marked up price.

“Based on what we sold last year, it would take $175,000 out of my bank account and give it to my distributor,” said Cigar City Brewing founder Joey Redner.

Last year, Cigar City Brewing produced just under 70,000 kegs.

According to the bill’s proponents, including sponsor Sen. Kelli Stargel, these microbreweries are currently operating in an ambiguous loophole outside of Florida’s three-tier system.

“We’re trying to figure out, you know, which of the three tiers do you want to operate in?” said Stargel, R-Lakeland. “Do you want to be a vendor or do you want to be a brewer? But if you’re going to be this blend there needs to be some amount of regulation there to make sure it’s fair for other bars.”

But guys like Ryan Dowdle say it’s the opposite of fair.

Dowdle was planning to open a microbrewery, called Angry Chair Brewing, this summer in Seminole Heights. He says this bill is drastically impacting his business model.

“They’re seriously inhibiting what we’re going to be able to do,” Dowdle said. “It’s just sad. I just wish they would look at it and say this makes no sense.”

Joe Redner said it best. “It’s taking profits from one company and moving it to the bank accounts of another company without that company adding any value into the system,” Joe Redner said.

This is where the takers vs makes argument really should be addressed. Legislation that forces a maker to repurchase his product from a distributor makes that distributor a taker. In the process it kills small business.


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About Egberto Willies

Egberto Willies is a political activist, author, political blogger, radio show host, business owner, software developer, web designer, and mechanical engineer in Kingwood, TX. He is an ardent Liberal that believes tolerance is essential. His favorite phrase is “political involvement should be a requirement for citizenship”. Willies is currently a contributing editor to DailyKos, OpEdNews, and several other Progressive sites. He was a frequent contributor to HuffPost Live. He won the 2nd CNN iReport Spirit Award and was the Pundit of the Week.

Comments

  1. John Blevins says

    April 27, 2014 at 6:27 PM

    Egberto, what is your opinion on the Liberty and Justice for Sale movement? I signed my name. It seems to be for the right cause, just as your’s is. Keep the ball rolling right over top of the corruption. Cheers

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    • bobdon77@msn.com says

      April 27, 2014 at 6:41 PM

      Egberto, I see so much in the media lately about the unlimited donations that can now be given to political campaigns, but I feel that in accordance with the latest US Socioeconomics Census that there are around 200 million that are the non- Rich in the US that can step up and use their good old fashion vote to kick the incumbent career corrupt congressmen/women out on Nov.4th. A little incitement and energizing of this potential group is needed.

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      • Egberto Willies says

        April 27, 2014 at 9:09 PM

        You are reading my mind. We must all do this together my friend. I am doing it and I am sure you are as well.

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    • Egberto Willies says

      April 27, 2014 at 9:10 PM

      I must check it out.

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