[Alberta's Child]

Good post, Driftless.

I'll point out that I'm in the process of starting a business myself. 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."

[samuel_adams_us]

Name any county in the world where you don't pay more than a dollar to anyone for a dollar's worth of work? Other than china where prisoners do all of the work and are taken care of by the communist state.

[samuel_adams_us]

BTW, this country isn't a business, it's a democratic republic.

[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!