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This story looks at the reality of the 'small business owner' in America. The people who hire accountants to find all the loopholes and schemes to try and find a .5% lower rate because it will make them more money.
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More money so they can hire new employees, or invest in new technologies, or maybe (here's a thought) stay in business in the fucking first place! Ever heard of inflation, or Rates Of Exchange? In order to keep up with these two things (inflation keeps getting worse, and the Dollar keeps taking a shit) any business (especially one which deals in imports) -must- continue to expand and -must- be able to maintain cashflow. "Making more money" isn't just about putting it into the Owner's pockets, it's about keeping the damned doors open. When a product costs $130/unit -more- than it did 3 months prior, that cost has to be covered somehow. How? You guessed it; by making more money!
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And now they are upset that the debt is $14 trillion, but don't want to be the ones who have to pay anything to bring it down.
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They're upset because the $14T debt (and $70T worth of liabilities) is for shit
they didn't do. That $14T debt is from things like asinine wars, bloated "welfare" schema, a Federal workforce almost entirely beholden to Unions who always demand moreMORE
MORE! nevermind the cost, and a "public service" sector that has never yet learned to live within its' means because the Gov't will just steal, print or borrow whatever money they decide they need. They're upset because they didn't do this shit, but now they're on the hook for it and being blamed for it by a bunch of professional gabblers who have never held a productive, private-sector job in their entire lives and have no idea what reality is for people who actually work for their livings or how the most basic ground-level economics work. They're upset because they're being tapped for the cash to pay for every manner of giveaway imaginable, cash which they can ill spare and giveaways which primarily go to the grifters, welfare cheats (Personal and Corporate), and "gamers" whose primary contribution to the economic life of this or any country is to buy cheap liquor and scratch-off tickets. They're sick of being told they have to pay for bridges to nowhere, wars in countries that haven't hurt us (and "aid" to countries which have), ever-faster-rising wages for semi-sentient and essentially untouchable Gov't workers (who then raise an unGodly shitstorm when Mr. Obama talks about freezing their raises; when's the last time you got any kind of raise?), and perks for useless worthless helpless hopeless morons like my neighbors. They're sick of being demonized for their resistance to having their savings and investments raped by a pack of clueless clowns who think being a Community Organizer and a one-term no-show kinda-sorta-Senator makes a person qualified to not only control the Big Red Button but also the largest and most complex economy on Earth.
No, they don't know if the Tea Party Republicans will be any better. But most small-business owners are having a very hard time figuring out how they could be any -worse-.