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Letters to Editor:-
"More help required for Small Businesses as National Minimum Wage increases"
"SMALL businesses are struggling to
fund new wage rises, as minimum wage yet again increases. We have no support
and more and more costs to cover. We have already had 3 businesses close in
Southport over the rise in wages combined with rents and other costs that
are just pricing people out of work in Southport. Sadly it is all well and
good talking about a living wage, but how many jobs will be on offer when
wages just go up and up. As wages go up, so do costs, and that means very
higher rises, yet small, local businesses are expected to compete against
international firms, who use workers in other countries and then import
products and services. All we are doing is damaging our future! We need to
support local businesses and keep the cash in the UK. Why not help fund this
rise by taking firms who use non EU workers overseas a higher rate of Tax
and pay small businesses grants? India charges far more for imported cars,
for example, so locals tend to buy locally produced cars... If done as a way
to help top up wages, that would be far better and encourage more firms to
produce and run services in the UK? Please ask your local MP's why this
can't be done? The Conservative Party said it will cut unnecessary red tape
so that small businesses and entrepreneurs can grow? In reality I think they
have cut funding and increased costs disproportionately, just as Labour did
when they held office." Mark, from Southport and ex-business owner.
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