gravity (4,075 posts)
4. Firing over taxes makes no sense either
Don't these business owners understand that employee wages are tax deductible.
Stupid dummie... I'm sure they do. These business owners have already got that figured in to their margins which are probably razor thin. Maybe if we had been in a boom economy for the last four years, it might be different. But after the last four years, most businesses are hanging on by the skin of their teeth. Now comes along more taxes, more regs, etc . Well dummie... most small business owners will look at their margin, their revenue stream, etc, and will probably decide they just can't make it and close.
I know a guy, good friend of mine, runs a small telecommunication/IT company. Got about 15 full time employees. He told me he is thinking about just shutting it down and retiring. He said it is just getting too hard to make payroll anymore. His big clients have cut back and that is affecting him. So there are 15 families that are gonna go on welfare.
I know another guy, went to high school with him, that runs a tree cutting service. Told me that if the derecho hadn't hit around here back in June and the power company hadn't hired his crews to help in tree removal, he would have had to lay off most of his crew and maybe wouldn't have survived.
I know another guy, runs a small construction company, that did close. Had that company for 25 years.
I could go on and on. You get the idea.
Consequences dummie. They matter. You wanted it, you got it, you own it. Ain't gonna be no equal outcome now. This is gonna trickle down and eventually it will affect you.
Dummies, listen to me and listen good. Hard times are coming. Really hard times. I will survive. I have before and never took a penny from the government. Grandad and dad lived thru the great depression. Taught me a lot when times were hard back in the late 70's.
Just as an aside... I blame the election of obumble to a second term on the MSM. If they would have shown half the sob stories they did when Bush had the economy at 5.5 percent, then obumbles would never have been reelected. You know it and I know it.
I personally hope that you dummies starve to death when the hard times come. Serves you right. Darwin at work.