Just some thoughts about lobby
Yesterday I wrote an article about sources of financing for a franchisee. And an interesting thought came to my mind. I was thinking about some associations and unions and their role in economic development.
Just think about it a bit. Small business companies have very little power to influence the legislation of the US or any other country. Even when they understand the necessity of some changes or improvements they are too small, too busy and don’t have enough money to protect their rights. As a result, 2-5 big companies have all the possibilities to lobby legislation favorable for them. They can put into operation new tariff or promote necessary educational program.
The only way out for small and medium-size companies is to become organized. And we can see this in almost every country in the world. The activity of different Small Business Associations and Unions of Entrepreneurs is a great power that can be one of the guarantees that protect competition.
But what about franchising? Yesterday I realized that franchisee can get the benefit of lobby twice! On the one hand as a representative of small business, and on the other as a representative of Franchise Association.
It seems for me that I found an additional benefit of franchising!
June 8th, 2006 at 4:21 pm
If to develop the idea you’ll come to the conclusion that the best variant is to be a small business owner, franchisee, single mother, black or racial minority, and lez. In this case it’s so easy to lobby… Just kidding))))
June 16th, 2006 at 8:30 am
You know… Your idea is not so funny as it looks from the first sight. I mean that if you know the legislation rather well you can find a lot of preferences for different groups of people, for special spheres of business and so on.
It happens because the government uses its economic policy (including taxes, interest rates and others) to help those who need that help. Like military people… As I know many people do not use their rights because they don’t know about them…