Since none of the people now in charge have ever run a business, they really don’t care about the cost of compliance for the rules they make up. They simply do not understand, nor do they even think is these terms, that the reason a person goes into businees is to make a profit...not to fill out some government form. And the item about reporting my spouse’s income to MY employer, Holy Moly, how many terabytes of space are in this website so I can comment on that?
That is what I found so very disturbing. It's none of my employer's business what our family income is.
When I was running my business it wasn’t uncommon for me to work in excess of 12 hours per day, 6 days per week. I would venture to say that this is typical. How many more hours can a small businessman work on non-productive issues such as this? Add insult to injury: this stuff is only going to be used to hang you, or your suppliers.