“Craigslist. Qualified people are begging for work on there.”
Here’s the problem. The government does not want you paying cash. They have passed laws making you responsible if somebody you’ve hired is injured or killed. If that happens you are well and truly scr*wed.
Companies are required to have insurance. The cost of that insurance (and unemployment comp and license fees (taxes)...etc.) are included in the cost of the job they’re doing for you. That’s why it’s so expensive.
There are a lot....repeat a lot....of contractors who are licensed and bonded advertising on Craigslist.
You post like your cited regulations problems can’t be fixed. Congress can change all that. Elections matter. Both parties have exported the country’s economy across the ocean. Wall Street overpowers Main Street. Money talks, politicians listen [it’s called free speech]. Bush - Obama, as Mrs Clinton says what’s difference does it make. The country needs another Perot who rightly heard the economy sucking sound a long time ago. He gets my vote.
It’s restore MADE IN USA or we continue to sink with war costs, depleted contributions to SS, and borrowing from China. Green jobs and tax cuts are just election boob bait for the bubbas.