What I've seen is that tax structures, insurance and workers compensation liability seem to be specifically designed to keep small businesses small.
Unless you innovate and produce a new or improve a product you can just barely scrape out an average wage earner's pay being self employed. I don't believe it's an accident. Politicians all seem to want to make new laws so that we think they are doing their jobs. The truth is, all they are doing is restricting our freedom.
Yup. There ought to be a law against new laws. Or, in the very least, three old laws should be stricken from the books for each new one written. LOL
Howdy Bob!
True... at present in Massachusetts they are in process of requiring businesses to pay 12 weeks of family leave pay for employees for personal or maternity needs.
Of course what this will do is force many businesses to close or leave Mass. Some years ago Mass asked the drug stores if they would mind operating at a loss so that the state could provide a prescription drug benefit for all citizens that would only require a $5 co-pay. Mass - the seat of American liberty - has completely forotten its roots, and doesn't even understand how capitalism works any longer.