Small independent trade distributors perceive federal bias toward large corporations

Beschloss describes a near-universal attitude among independently owned regional plumbing-heating-cooling-piping distributors and mechanical contractors that federal agencies are disinterested or antagonistic and that policy favors large public corporations.

“I’ve become increasingly aware these rugged individualists, mostly comprised of independently owned regional plumbing-heating-cooling-piping distributors and substantial mechanical contractors focusing on commercial and industrial construction, possess an almost universal attitude of federal agency disinterest, even considered antagonistic by many contacted.”

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