The War on Small Business

How the Government Used the Pandemic to Crush the Backbone of America

By: Carol Roth

Narrated by: Chris Henry Coffey

For years, government bureaucrats have been looking for ways to destroy small businesses. With coronavirus, they finally had their chance.

In 2020, the American economy suffered the biggest financial collapse in history. But while Main Street suffered like never before, the stock market continued to reach new highs. How could this be? The answer is that government had slapped oppressive restrictions on small businesses while propping up Wall Street and engineering a historic consolidation of power and wealth.

This isn’t a new problem. During the last financial crisis, Washington bailed out large banks, saying they were “too big to fail.” When the federal government finally pushed out the CARES Act in 2020, it clearly favored the wealthy and well-connected, showing that small businesses were too small to matter. People across the political spectrum constantly complain about the tyranny of big business, and they’re not wrong. However, too many think government is the solution. In reality, government is the problem.

In The War on Small Business, entrepreneur Carol Roth unveils the many abuses of power inflicted on small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Small business owners were thrown in jail for trying to make a living. Individual rights were discarded. Big government did what it does best—intentionally protect the rich and powerful.

This is the most underreported story coming out of the pandemic. The government chose winners and losers, who would thrive and who would fight to survive, based on not data or science, but based on clout and connections. This enabled the government, with the aid of the Federal Reserve, to oversee the largest wealth transfer in history from Main Street to Wall Street. The issues started long ago and continue today with a highly tilted playing field that favors those “in the club” to the detriment of the average Americans.

This book is about the Davids vs. the Goliaths and the decentralization that can help the small, independent businesses and individuals participate in wealth creation.

If Americans don’t wake up and stop it, politicians will continue to produce policies that intensify their war on small business and individuals and all that stands in the way of centralized power and control.

The title says EXACTLY what this book is about!

This book is a "must read." It is startling how the Federal, State, and local governments used the pandemic to shift wealth from small businesses to large and centralized companies. Carol's book goes in-depth into the governments' continuing efforts to hamper and destroy small businesses. The book is very well documented and researched. This book underscore the issues that businesses face in the United States of America, not from just competition, but from the governments as well. The only detractor from this audiobook is that Carol did not narrate it herself. This is not a comment about Chris Henry Coffey's narration, it is great, it is just that Carol brings a presence with her and her communication has panache. Even without her narration, this book is FANTASTIC and I highly recommend this book.

An Education on a bipartisan scandal happening before our eyes

I like to believe that I know quite a bit about what’s going on in the world. Yet somehow I missed a great deal relating to the theft of our country’s economy by the powerful who desire a centrally planned economy. Carol Roth‘s book is engrossing and educates about the importance of our individual rights in the face of mounting power grabs. I learned so much from this book and it really challenged me to go deeper and to be a champion for the individuals and small businesses within our country that are fighting to stay alive and relevant.

Good documentation for the future

Good for documentation but I knew almost everything in this book. Great to pass on to the youth though.

informative but long

the author interviewed on Glenn Beck. sometimes. you can give to much away and then realize I've heard this already

Excellent work but vague solutions

An excellent book overall. Excellent job of identifying the problem, it’s sources, and it’s causes. However she provides only vague solutions. Perhaps that’s all that’s available. I am gravely concerned that it will take the effort of many, many brave Americans who are willing to again do what our founding fathers did: to sacrifice their time, their possessions, and likely the sacred honor for the sake of our country. And a great risk of truly losing all three