I know kids who have applied for sub $40k jobs with a hundred applicants.
I also know my small business is getting harder and harder each day to keep running. The attitude of fees has come to us. We are being charged by third parties who do invoices for our clients to submit our invoices. We are being charged thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours to participate in safety surveys and monitoring programs mandated by our clients who are mandated to do this by the Feds... it all just rolls down the hill. These programs are redundant to reporting and programs we already do. No regulations retire, they just get added on to the ones already there no matter the duplication or similarity.
On top of this IRS has declared open season on S Corporations. I know some who get audit or inquiry notices weekly from the IRS. They keep jabbing away until something sticks. Many just pay the claims instead of fighting it. Paying takes less time and less money and IRS knows it. The process is nothing but extortion.
I’m sure most of us break laws every day. There is no good way to keep up with it all. Then there is the specter of obastard care and all it brings to us.
Business in particular and small business in particular has a target all over it by this marxist administration.
I do think we are doomed.
The pathological hatred of small business by the Federal Government seems boundless. I guess it's the logical result of Marxists taking over much of the bureaucracy for the last fifty years.
Not a word from our so-called "representatives" in objection to such IRS practices, either. That's where "War on Everything" policy positions lead you - you have to shut up when those Wars eventually get declared on real Americans, or you'll get called a hypocrite by your Democratic opponent and you might even lose!
The taxes and regulatory burden on business in the US must be worse then ever.
I am a CNC Machinist, I work for a company in England that supplies parts to the Aerospace industry. In the last few months we have been absolutely swamped with orders from the US, they are outsourcing work to the UK (that speaks volumes)
I am currently working 12 hour shifts, 7 days a week. I’ve not had a day off since March.
This is why I got out of the EHS field. I could no longer see a way clear to bring the ideals of EHS to benefit the bottom line of the company. Ten years ago being very good at EHS management would lower the cost of doing business for many industries. But around 2004-05 it seemed things started to really turn to nit-pick costly programs being pushed by the 'sustainable' lobby folks. As I said then and still stand by today..."It ain't sustainable if it puts people out of work or eventually shuts down a company due to the cost of execution."
Unfortunately thousands of businesses listened to this lobby and never acted in their company's best interests. And for many companies we can understand why. Just look at the advertisers that opted to bail on Rush Limbaugh. Many of them never realized the people calling, emailing, and railing about them advertising on Limbaugh never considered those same people didn't use their products and never would.
As a retired EHS manager it became grossly apparent that EHS no longer represented doing the right things, it became doing the PR things.
Heck, the IRS is after EVERYONE. TeaParty groups across the nation are being poked, and private citizens as well : /
Tatt