Local Shopping

Buying things locally, food included is very important. Just imagine a world where you cannot go to a street corner and find a unique and delicious place to eat, or a family owned shop that is eager to help you out or fix a broken product. Imagine a world where the only reason that people do business is not because they love what they do, rather because they are part of a larger chain that is being pushed to make money and cut corns to do so. Which one of those options sounds better? For most people that answer is probably the favorite, but the important question is how do we sustain these precious local businesses when at times it can seem so much easier to buy from or use the services of a large chain.

I believe that we should be passing legislation that helps to support smaller businesses, and if there are already some in place then I think that they need to be more prevalent or enticing. By this I mean that perhaps we could try to give tax breaks to people who regularly buy local businesses products and services.

Some people may say that implementing these legal helpers or just shopping somewhere because it is local is threatening American capitalism and is communist. To this I would say that you are stupid. Growing small businesses creates more competition and there for lowers prices and, in most cases, increases the qualities of the items being made. All in all helping theses small businesses ends up helping the consumer.

The next argument that I can think of is the one that giving shoppers a legal incentive to shop at smaller businesses will ultimately kill of big businesses and just leave America with a bunch of small businesses that cannot support them selves. Once again, this is stupid. If something like that ever started to happen (and this is very unlikely) then these laws can always just be repealed.

So in the end of it all, shopping locally, or passing bills that help local businesses thrive can do nothing but help the economy and the people running the businesses. All of these people who now have an incentive to shop locally may encourage others to start their own businesses and help the economy grow even more. (387 words)