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Gia Pronto owner Marco Lentini on how government policies’ are impacting small business growth.
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Great work and we actually expanded to bear the lending capacity lower chiefs during but.
Height of the Great Recession we just went through bull a lot of companies -- their doors open because of what we -- through the SBA.
-- his own trumpet music in the background I guess in your present you can.
I -- here and it is that no and it went that was the president calling into a Florida -- -- -- this -- but my next guest is into a hip.
To what the big guys really been up to restaurant owner mark on -- -- His businesses are benefiting from the president's tax policy -- the small business administration.
And I guess he would not necessarily founder pick the president not.
If you heard the same as a pizza -- might drop and I don't know whether Marcos and you're not buying missile.
Feel the love to small business from the press.
Now look beyond I'm not seeing that at the level that it's being described -- my feeling it.
There are a lot of tax credits tax incentives that that are being proposed then and touted.
But at the end of the day to me it's actually quite simple -- if you let the the entrepreneur lowers the small business owners like myself across America.
Keep more of their own money.
They will in turn go out and make the investment sparked -- new businesses that employ the people in our towns and cities all across this country.
But it will be that simple -- -- the president says -- -- -- -- again and again speaker to speaker.
The Democratic Convention last week Marco is that if we go back to the policies like low taxes low work.
Regulations of the Bush Administration.
Will just relive those those those times what would you make about.
What -- sometimes it's it's better for government actually step out of the way and not do anything.
And unity in this you know that's a brilliant point Marco because that number I'm not kidding you.
Sometimes a better part of dollars is nothing.
-- -- -- -- -- Right and it's it's the -- -- that wake up at 5 o'clock in the morning it's the small business owners that works seven days a week.
If you let them keep more of their money they will go out there -- create the opportunity.
Even if you look at specific policies you hear about SBA loan fees -- -- -- borrower if you eliminate those SBA loan fees I promise you -- going to take that savings and I'm gonna go out and do things like maybe by an additional bread machine.
And when I do that.
I actually -- the hire someone to work that machine so that's how you take unemployment don't -- let businesses like myself all across the towns and cities in America.
Keep more of their money they won't go out and make your property investments grow their business partner of businesses and in -- continue to drive horror com.
Well here's -- -- over -- you because you know this business there have far better than I do what's happened on this woman's front.
The argument that I heard the -- with a -- -- -- administration that it lends money when banks aren't.
It's the bulwark of support for guys like you when banks haven't been so thank god for the SBA thank god for this administration.
Doing what it's doing to support it and I guess by extension you.
Does that through.
It is the SBA is crucial what.
A going along that if the SBA it's so important and small businesses like myself -- benefit from -- and G certainly not borrowing from the SBA will -- shouldn't that -- even greater of the focus.
From our politicians our government.
We're making with so much sense -- we're gonna keep your comments on the but the panelist who is what do you most want to see at a governor do you let your druthers I guess -- be.
Cooler on the regulations.
Are cool it on the taxes but we kind of do my own thing.
That and anything that the government does does really needs that needs to be immediate and direct.
So it's not providing 88 tax credit.
That on the seat over a few years if I make -- expenditure it's it's having policies.
-- an incentives in place that are immediate and Iraq.
Parts -- from the if the president -- does get reelected.
Are you worried or do you think you know you've got such a successful and keen business mind you'll overcome anything.
Well you know I I think there's there's the great aspect of of the American dream and the American work ethic is that there.
Regardless of who's in office I will continue to wake up at 5 in the morning and work and so will so many other small businesses.
All across this country.
And we will continue to drive -- but that doesn't mean that we can't.
Continue to look for ways to to improve our situation improve the economic situation to our cities and -- Well put mark on a TV thank you very very much for having.
