[Political Junkie Too]

I'm not sure this question was adequately answered. Let me rephrase it.

If I own an ice cream shop and the guy across the street owns a sandwich shop, can we agree to share the same workers @ 20 hours each, so the two independent businesses stay under the limit while the workers get guaranteed 40 hour work weeks?

Make it a dry cleaners and a liquor store. Any two unrelated mom-and-pop businesses that only have proximity in common.

-PJ

[Kit cat]

YES!!!

[Mr. Jeeves]

It won't work for small businesses because the IRS already has experience squashing such tactics. If you are Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase and own a few Senators each, you can probably get away with some variant of it.

If you own a small business under Obama, your sacred duty to The Chief is to close down your selfish, bourgeois scheme, donate your business assets to the IRS for redistribution to the poor, and help your employees get jobs with large, well-connected companies with fully-staffed HR Departments that already operate as an arm of government. :)