This kind of policy strangles innovation and initiative on the business end and, ultimately, shifts costs to consumers in the form of higher taxes or increases in consumer goods and prices.
John Shimkus: “This kind of policy strangles innovation and initiative on the business end and, ultimately, shifts costs to consumers…”
On the recordMarch 3, 2020
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Critique of policies that hinder business and increase consumer costs.
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