Agree.
It is not just the business owners - who for some are making the decision between going out of business or circumventing oppressive regulation and burdensome taxes.
Bull shit. If they can't conduct themselves by the rules and laws, like thousands of other businesses, they should not be in business.
They are a big part of the problem and NEED to go out of business.
You obviously know nothing about running a small business. And by the way the issues is not paying taxes on profit actually earned after expenses. It is the cost in time and money of complying with an incredible and ever-growing burden of regulation, regulation designed by a few big insiders to squelch competitition, by the way. The reason that business are going to sole proprietors with no emplyees, and relying on contract labor for essential services is to get out from under the crushing burden of paperwork to hire a couple of folks. Unless you are big enough to justify an accountant, a lawyer and a full time commpliance officer, you stay solo.
I know of no sector of American life that is not horibly corrupt, actually.