On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:50:39 -0800 (PST), Frogwatch
wrote:

Stimulus spending, tax cuts, what moronic ideas. Govt should stop
trying to help and just go away. They caused the problems. The
idiocy of the stimulus crap is that it will just go to political
cronies providing almost no jobs and plenty of debt for our children.
Tax cuts for small business, Pleeeeeeeeze, every Tom Dick and Harry
will incorporate and large businesses will lobby to be allowed to be
"small".
What we really need is for govt to reduce the amount of work Small
Business spends on govt crap. Whenever they come up with some small
new regulation, it mushrooms into huge amounts of work for small
business to keep track of. Leave us the fu$% alone and stop trying to
help us and stop overregulating everything.
Some damned govt fool was giving me grief last week for not having the
latest copy of a workers comp poster although it the same as for the
past 10 yrs. Dealing with that fool prob cost me hundreds of dollars.

Assuming you own a small business, other than people, what's your
biggest expense?

Do you offer medical or dental insurance?

What % of expense does Gov't crap represent?

When you say it costs you, are you talking about the expense of
compliance, taxes, fees?

Do you have to deal with state and local taxes, fees too? What do you
propose happens to city/state assuming you're talking about the feds.

Compliance is a bitch for sure, but medical insurance has become a
giant line item for me. Avg. $12 - 14K per person annually, less
employee participation which varies. Employees still have big
deductibles, co-pays, limits to coverage.