[Mad Dawgg]

"And I can assure everyone here that unless something dramatic changes, I will never hire a single employee. I have no problem paying someone a dollar for a dollar's worth of work. But when it costs me $1.50 to pay someone $1, it's pretty clear to me that there is something deeply flawed in this country's "business model."

Amen Brother, Amen!

We have 3 businesses and have exactly one employee besides the three family members who own the corporation. We have contractors we deal with but we don't hire employees anymore. The paper work and extra cost is just not worth the meager increase in income.

The family members all have low salaries (We hate to pay FICA taxes) we take dividends instead and take any profits and invest them in real estate or equities with dividends or bonds.

You can't hire someone to work anymore. Instead you've got to offer cradle to grave healthcare and retirement and personal days, blah blah blah etc.etc.etc. The liberals have made it so business is not the primary concern of a business and thus the Big Crops are fleeing the coup!

[dfwgator]

It almost makes it worth it for the government to handle healthcare if it takes that burden off of businesses. It just may come down to that in order to compete with the rest of the world, as much as I hate to say it.

[Chemist_Geek]

You can't hire someone to work anymore. Instead you've got to offer cradle to grave healthcare

Ah, yes, sick employees are so much more productive than healthy ones.

and retirement and

That's right, employees are to work until they drop dead, unless they managed to save some of their salary...

personal days

Yep, those employees need to be at their desks with their noses to the grindstone 24/7! That's what we pay them a salary for! If we wanted them to have a family or a life, we would have issued them one!

blah blah blah etc.etc.etc.

It's a good thing you don't need employees; no one worth anything would take the benefit package you seem to want to offer.