This is a great argument in favor of higher taxes on large enterprises and wealthy individuals. Small businesses aren't being victimized by government, they're being victimized by large companies that compete with them for customers and resources, and that offload their real costs on the public, all while shirking the taxes that would pay for infrastructure like public healthcare and transportation, and eliminate much of the burden on small-to-medium businesses.
Push Them Hard Enough and the Productive Class Will Opt Out of Servitude
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#12Taking care of sick, old, unemployed people is 60% of the US Federal budget: https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-bud... The solution is for people to take care of themselves, not the rest of society, and to dismantle the welfare state, in coordination with dramatically reducing income taxes and eliminating payroll taxes. People have 'saved' for retirement and ill health for thousands of years - w…
Wow, arguing to literally take us back to the stone age!
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#13Taking care of sick, old, unemployed people is 60% of the US Federal budget: https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-bud... The solution is for people to take care of themselves, not the rest of society, and to dismantle the welfare state, in coordination with dramatically reducing income taxes and eliminating payroll taxes. People have 'saved' for retirement and ill health for thousands of years - w…
So you're basically saying that people live too long and we should reduce average life expectancy back to 50 again? Because that is what happened in the last thousands of years. People simply died before they reached their retirement age. Taking care of grandma is easy when your other grandma and your grandpas are dead already.
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#14>My partner and I had a ready response when employees hinted that we must be raking in big bucks: here's the keys to the front door, payday is on Friday. That shut them up in short order because they could see we meant it: it's all yours, including meeting payroll in a bad month out of your own pocket.
Gee with a management style like this I can't imagine why the author is struggling to turn a profit
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#15Taking care of sick, old, unemployed people is 60% of the US Federal budget: https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-bud... The solution is for people to take care of themselves, not the rest of society, and to dismantle the welfare state, in coordination with dramatically reducing income taxes and eliminating payroll taxes. People have 'saved' for retirement and ill health for thousands of years - w…
They also died of cholera for thousands before we started "wasting" all this money on indoor plumbing.
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#16Haha. "Multiple of base year" on the y axis, starting with 1950 when industrial output was very large, and the cold war (responsible for much of the public increase) was just getting started? Nice try. Business owners need to stop voting up so many extreme idealogues, that's the problem.