Is the U.S. Hostile to Job Creation?

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Tuesday July 17, 2012 · 1:44 PM PDT

2012/07/17 · 13:44

I have founded and managed multiple companies with venture capital backing and I have to say that this meme that the US is hostile to job creation or new ventures is just so much baloney. This particular type of baloney gets trotted out to attempt to scare politicians into supporting whatever concession in labor, tax or safety regulations a particular business group is hoping to get. Business lobbyists trot this stuff out in ways that make me think of 'Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers' from back in the day.

In my last company, we had significant operations in Montreal and significant operations in the US. Quebec is for all practical purposes is a hard-core socialist country. Think Sweden. So, Montreal is regulated in ways that Fox News conservatives would piss themselves over. But I found Montreal to be very easy to do business in for a couple of reasons. More after the jump.

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