What is amazing is that this goes so much against the concept of the EU. The EU was founded on the principles of four freedoms, Free movement of goods, Free movement of persons, Freedom to provide services, and Free movement of capital.

The EU even have a SME Test to maker sure small business are not overburdened by regulations.

Also there are thousands of lobbyists fighting for small businesses. Yes, this law will probably eventually be thrown out for small businesses but after how many years is a big question, and how many small businesses have lost there businesses.

And the law was devised by Ripa di Meana, who had been a member of the Italian Communist Party and the green party.

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sajithdilshan 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> And the law was devised by Ripa di Meana, who had been a member of the Italian Communist Party and the green party.

how ironical

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cobbzilla 2 hours ago | parent [-]

It’s hard to overthrow actual free markets. Small business is too sympathetic.

But if you pass enough well-meaning regulations and strangle all the small businesses with good intentions, it’s much easier to overthrow a crony-capitalist oligopoly of megacorps, which is exactly the end game.

	▲	sajithdilshan 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		yes, and go back to communism 2.0. because that worked so well the last time it was tried.

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raverbashing 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> And the law was devised by Ripa di Meana, who had been a member of the Italian Communist Party and the green party.

Why am I not surprised. But to me the worse is the 400 something rubberstamps this crap got