We Are Witnessing The Death Of Small Business In America

TEC ^ | 12/16/2012 | Michael Snyder

[RetiredTexasVet]

Don’t count on it. Recently, full time was 40 hours, now by fiat of the IRS, it is 30 hours. Same with the 50 personnel rule. Maybe 50 today, but possibly none tomorrow if it furthers the agenda to eliminate small businesses.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Small businesses are, by definition, not members of the big-government/big-corporate criminal complex, and their existence is competition for the BG/BC monopoly.

Just tax it to death, and the competition is gone, and the BG/BC criminal complex owns everything.

And the death tax ensures that small businesses have to sell out to the BG/BC criminal complex.

[PieterCasparzen]

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[Steve Newton]

Many have given up to go “Gualt” or “shrugging” whatever you want to call it.

I’m not sure what the solution is—at least for another 4 years.

[upchuck]

Sure glad I sold my business a few years back.

My sympathy to my fellow small business owners. Regulations are causing a slow death.

Of course, that is exactly what nobama wants.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Sure glad I sold my business a few years back.

What exactly was the business doing and what kind of regulations did it suffer?

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Sure glad I sold my business a few years back.

What exactly was the business doing and what kind of regulations did it suffer?

[PGalt]

Thanks VERY MUCH for the post; thread; ping and your work. BTTT!

[mo]

Hyper-taxation.......hyper-regulation.......who’d a thunk?.?

[upchuck]

What exactly was the business doing and what kind of regulations did it suffer?

We sold medical software and were very much hassled by HIPAA. Everybody in the patient medical community was (still are). Impossible deadlines. Screwup after screwup by the government which cost the company a bunch of bucks.

I could write pages about this but won't. Glad to be out of it.

[CORedneck]

This is a winning statement. I want to add, when you work for a large corporation, the corporate management like their employees to be in debt, why ? They can use that leverage where if you don’t play their game, you lose your job, therefore lose your ability to pay your debt. Large corporations don’t like when their employees are debt free.

Additionally, I seen people financially ruined like when they are told to relocate and have to sell and then buy a house and then after a few months at their new location, they are cut from their jobs. And sometimes they were so unethical where they didn’t pay the relocation cost based on lame excuses such as the form was filled out incorrectly and oh, BTW, too late to resubmit the form.

Small business gives you independence which big gov’t and big corporations don’t like.

>All by design. Fascists prefer working with a very few entities they can easily direct. Democrats want as many Americans reduced to dependency upon large entities, whether the government or large corporations in bed with it, as they can get. Self reliant people cannot be steered like cattle.

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[freeandfreezing]

All by design. Fascists prefer working with a very few entities they can easily direct. Democrats want as many Americans reduced to dependency upon large entities, whether the government or large corporations in bed with it, as they can get. Self reliant people cannot be steered like cattle.

And mandatory health insurance is a great example of that process in effect. In Massachusetts as soon as Romney Care was adopted the state department of labor issued new rules regarding the classification of independent contractors - supposedly to ensure that companies didn't switch their employees to contractors in order to avoid having to provide health insurance. But the actual effect was to greatly reduce the market for 1099 contractors, and add a huge risk to small companies that a contractor could be reclassified by the Mass. Dept. of Labor to an employee.

Government's desire to "do something" about health care had the side effect of reducing opportunities for people who wanted to work, and making it much less desirable for businesses to use local contractors. From the company's point of view it is safer to just use overseas contractors, or have the work performed by one of the large outsourcing companies.