[goodnesswins]

Yeah, but JANE Sixpack has started a business and now she's got one worth about 3 million....with employees.....and in the State of Washington, if something happened to her....guess what.....the State would want to tax her ESTATE, including her home, her auto's, her jewelry, her business....how's THEM APPLES! In America is about the only place on earth where you can go from DIRT poor to wealthy.....mostly with HARD work....but, you think that should be penalized.....how special.

[Mamzelle]

I'll bet Jane doesn't want to leave America to her nanny and pool boy.

Just can't get too worked up about it. I suppose it's the incipient populist in me--inherited wealth seems to breed busybodies, weaklings and Paris Hilton.

[A CA Guy]

That is why a person in business with employees considers strongly as a corporation for limited liability and gets a large cheap umbrella policy or good errors and omissions insurance.

Employees are real difficult. You try and screw them over and even a corporation will not protect you from having them climb over to access your personal wealth for monies owed them.

The reason most people who work for themselves try not to hire people is all that you mentioned though.
People don't want the drama and liability in their lives.