Why was reagan a popular candidate for small businesses?

Reagan wanted to cut taxes, destroy labor unions, increase military expenditures and distribute more money to the business class not the working class. Also, he was anti-regulation of any kind; environmental, labor, urban and rural development, pushed for the privatization of historically public responsibilities ie. privatize schools, prisons, transportation systems, FAA, affordable housing, research and development, the military, energy, communication, etc.

workers of lowell mills were greatly benefited for the waltham type of work which was more a paternalist kind, trying to protect the integrity of this little girls coming from small farmers and providing an adequate place of work, this in an effort to avoid the issues of bad place conditions and immorality that the people in bigger industrialized cities of great britain were experimenting.

the romans were initially interested in expansion via sicily (which at that time was a cultural melting pot), part of which lay under carthaginian control. at the start of the first punic war (264-241 bc), carthage was the dominant power of the western mediterranean, with an extensive maritime empire