We closed down the business in ‘89 NOT JUST because of the government assault on our piggy bank, but also they of a sudden decided they needed to regulate harmless chemical products we used miniscule amounts of to create what it was we built, and sold. NOT ONLY did they decide to regulate these small viles of product, but began charging us a fee for their regulation of said products as well.
We decided to “H” with the business as it wasn’t worth the effort anymore. All the enjoyment of owning ones own small business venture (it was truly a “Mom & Pop entity) was regulated, and fee’d away.
The tentacles of government control are like the Hydra, cut one off and seven more appear. It has become so ingrained in our society most people have no clue what freedom is, and are more fearful of the responsibility that comes with it than being suffocated by petty regulation.