could be different depending on what the intended effect of each action item is. From the OP:

Providing tax relief. America’s smallest businesses—those with one to five employees—spend 150 hours and $1,100 per employee to comply with federal taxes. That’s more than 20 times higher than the average for larger firms. Hillary will simplify tax filing and provide targeted tax relief for small businesses—not big corporations that can afford lawyers and lobbyists.

So in this case of tax relief she is targeting the smallest.

But this program is much more than tax relief. It is investment in infrastructure and training too. I will see what else I can add to this later.

...all over the USA, along with destroying their communities and their downtowns, and along with paying such low wages that their employees become a burden on the local welfare systems?

How about curbing big product manufacturers who outsource jobs, pay workers $3/hr in China or Mexico, then ship often cheap, shitty, unsafe, polluting products to the USA to sell at inflated prices? How many small business has this destroyed? Countless!

You know what this proposal reminds me of? USAID pacification programs in Afghanistan, where 50% of the money went to the private U.S. contractor for posh offices and high living, 25% went for maintaining lobbyists in Washington DC to bid for more contracts and the remaining 25% was a slush fund for Karzai's cronies. I also read a USAID pacification program for Colombia which was part of a scorched earth war for driving peasant farmers from their land and forcing the the Uribe-Bush mafia government on the region. The USAID plan was the follow-up to mass murder.

These USAID programs all had this "nice," slick, happy-sounding, Clintonian bureaucratic language.

The relationship of those economic dynamics to welfare reform turns my stomach.

The same goes for mass incarceration and accepting $ from private prison (of course, she saw the light so she's forgiven).
How is it that the explosion of USAers behind bars escaped such a smart person?

and not allowing for them to have changed based on how the world changes. As someone put it better the other day, it is a politicians job to do what the electorate wants not to stand on an unchanging position out of some "faultless" ideological judgement.

However, it is another to ignore facts and consider the importance of unintended consequences on people's lives. Especially when ti is well known that the people being exploited will have their opportunities denied, their economic security destroyed, or actually die. She knew people would die in the military actions she advocated either as soldiers or "collaterol damage. She was aware of the fact that income providers would be removed from families via 3rd strike laws, mandatory minimums, and differential sentencing for crack vs. cocaine. There is no doubt that she could draw the line to a picture of how that combined with welfare reform would destroy families.

People were sacrificed re opportunity, and in death to satisfy her quest for power. And to pretend it is okay until she got caught taking money from the prison industry reveals an extremely callous disposition where people are a means to an end.

1. She promoted the crime bill and welfare reform. Income providers were removed from families, and the safety net was gutted in both cases because felons were no longer eligible for the meager assistance that remained (food stamps).

2. Incarceration has steadily increased since the crime bill was passed and is now more than double what it was then. More prisons (including private ones) were built. Thus legal slavery was facilitated.

3. Welfare enabled walmart's worst policies by providing a large pool of employees who were very desperate.

4. Hillary did sit on the board of walmart. She also accepted money from the private prison industry AFTER there was greater public awareness. How is it that so many other people saw it coming and she didn't?

5. We knew the results of Charlie Wilson's war long before 2003. We invited a country to be a proxie in the cold war and told them we would rebuild their infrastructure and more. We didn't and it blew back on us. Many people warned that Iraq would destabilize the region and serve as a recrutment tool for terrorists. It was an assessment based on very recent history.

I am very sure she is way too smart to not have seen every bit of it coming. Since I don't think she thought those would be good consequences but supported every bit of it at times when it was popular with conservatives who had congress and for the presidency for the IWAR, I can only surmise that in all cases it opportunistic support. Lives have truly been ruined and people really have died.

In order for you to see things my way you would have to recognize that whatever role the Democrats played in the 90's was in very large measure a result of what happened prior and a result of what the electorate wanted.

Hillary has a liberal voting record, and had she been in office in the 90's she would have had a liberal record then too. Because compared to all elected in office she was liberal. In the 90's Hillary fought for universal Health Insurance reforms, perhaps you have heard that before. Hillary was a champion for the family and for women. This was her main focus as it is to this day.

Sure she sat on the board for Walmart for 6 years from '86 to '92. She has been criticized for not being more of a force in affecting Walmart's policies. Is it realistic to think at that time she could have had much effect? She was the first and only women on the board. It was a time when anti-union feeling in the country was peaking.

I am not too educated on the issue of her accepting private prison money. Is that her only sin with regard to private prisons? Maybe you should let a little of that hate go.

Charlie Wilson's War, Afghanistan? I don't understand why you bring that up with regard to Hillary Clinton.

Hillary does not take National Security lightly, and she decided after much thought and after listening to her constituents and looking at what info she had, that she should do what she could to force UN inspections on Iraq. She never advocated for an invasion. She expected the Bush admin to wait for the results of the inspections. However you read her vote, it also important to admit, that she could not stop Bush from invading whatever her vote was.

Good day to you.

and more, do address that.

That's what they do for a living--sling bullshit language all over Washington DC.

Her DONORS have destroyed small businesses throughout this country, and she's going to remedy this massive destruction with slushy lobbyist language about "entrepreneurship" and "underserved communities."

Give me a break.

just lying. She will have to do it.

Admittedly, I live in a red county in a red state.

the hatred for the Clintons in this area is PALPABLE.

Sure, I get that there are pockets around the country that subsist on helpings of Hillary hate. I myself am in a redstate, transplanted from So Cal many years ago though.

What I meant was her programs and policies should be designed to represent all of America.

the imbalances in the system. And she attempts to sell all Americans on why the changes are important. But we have gone off topic. This thread was intended to show she has good ideas for small businesses.

I mean, we're constantly asking to talk about issues. But we don't want to believe anything that Clinton says so we'll just pivot left and right in order not to.

After all, we've got memes to get out there!