Political Quotes

“The Small Business Survival Committee, or SBSC, is a nonpartisan, nonprofit small business advocacy group with more than 50,000 members. These materials give a small business perspective on recent actions of the Department of Justice's Antitrust division, and of the action against Microsoft in particular. As the SBSC point out, we are in an era of renewed activism on the part of the Antitrust Division. Since 1994 that Division has pursued more than 274 antitrust cases. The Antitrust Division was set up to protect consumers and our free enterprise system. But these materials demonstrate that it is questionable whether this new activism is in fact helpful to small businesses and entrepreneurs. In particular, the SBSC questions whether the government's action against Microsoft, along with the concomitant actions of the state attorneys general, will not actually hurt small businesses and entrepreneurs who have profited from Microsoft's innovative practice. Worse, significant harm may be done to our ability to compete and to our very system of free enterprise, by the draconian measures being put forward in these talks.”