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These bastards really break our stones. What if the business isn’t making a profit? Sometimes you are just barely making it, but you don’t close the business because you know it will get better. You continue to pay your employees because it’s the right thing to do, but you don’t take a salary because you’re an honest person.

The fools who gave us this a$$hole law have no bloody idea of what it means to have a business. In the liberal “minds”, business owners are evil capitalists who exploit their workers and earn obscene profits on the backs and sweat of their employees.

The end goal is to have all the means of production in the hands of the government. See communist manifesto.

In the minds of a leftist, any profit margin greater than 1% is greedy unless it’s a solar company or some other ‘green’ company getting taxpayer money.

If the ‘green’ company isn’t completley bankrupt within a year, it’s a “stimulus success story” and/or a “great American company”.

You continue to pay your employees because it’s the right thing to do, but you don’t take a salary because you’re an honest person.

I owned my own little General Contracting business back in the late 90's and into the early part of the new millennium. Due in part to the dot-com rise and cheap import of immigrant programmers, I was laid off as a programmer (self-taught - no sheep skin kept me from staying in IT). I decided to go back to doing what I did as a kid with my father and brother - construction. It started out with just me doing manual labor and my wife doing paperwork.

Within three years, I had 21 full-time employees and 10-15 part-timers (depending on our jobs) and was making GOOD money. Then the recession really hit home and over the last two years I made less than most of my employees. I finished my last two jobs with just me and two other employees and both of those men made more money than I did!

I was over $87K in debt with NO job, NO income and I was married with four daughters. I was hoping, praying and trying to keep the business open and grow it back. The last hit, the one that made me finally shut my doors: I was hit with an OSHA citation! I had to sell my house to pay my citation so that the government didn't TAKE the house and leave me with NOTHING!

The government does not care about you, me or ANY worker! The government cares about getting every last dollar they can from you, me and EVERY worker!