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Concerns about regulations and constraints on small businesses
1:26:52
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32 sec
Council Member Vickie Paladino expresses her concerns about the increasing regulations and constraints placed on small businesses. She shares her personal experience as a former small business owner.
- Mentions her discomfort with the term 'watch list' in relation to business regulations
- Shares that her family closed their 30-year-old landscaping business due to excessive regulations
- Emphasizes that multiple layers of regulations were 'choking' their business
Vickie Paladino
1:26:52
I worry I I I put my notes away, but, you know, I see watch list.
1:26:57
That word bothers me.
1:26:59
When I see, one of the reasons why we closed our small business, and we had our business for 30 years, it was a landscaping business.
UNKNOWN
1:27:09
Yes.
Vickie Paladino
1:27:10
One of the reasons why we closed it was because there were so many, constraints being put on regulations.
UNKNOWN
1:27:18
Mhmm.
Vickie Paladino
1:27:19
And on top of regulations.
1:27:21
On top of regulations.
1:27:23
It was choking us to death.