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Ann Marie Buerkle: “If you knew now what you--if you knew then what you know now regarding regulations and all of the impediments to job…”

On the recordApril 19, 2011
If you knew now what you--if you knew then what you know now regarding regulations and all of the impediments to job creation, would you have gone into business and would you have done what you have done. And each one of the members of that panel said, 'No, we would not.'
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Ann Marie Buerkle
New York

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Buerkle reflects on small business owners' regrets about entering business due to regulations.

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