Reply to "letter from "the boss""

" Remember a few years ago that clothing or furniture company burned to the ground near christmas time. The owner continued to pay his employees until the plant was rebuilt"

Yea you know why .. it cost $ 5.35 to make an article of clothing and they sell it for $ $80.00 .. with all the minumum wage people that were making him millions he could afford to do it. The contracting business overhead is 20% and profit 10% if your lucky and the men are getting paid 65.00 per hr just wages and benefits and there getting a raise of 3.75 in may .. in this economy.

I down sized my company from 90 employees to 20 now .. It was the biggest damn baby sitting job I ever had in my life. Now I Project Manage all my jobs and I'm happier with Jeans and a Sweat Shirt because I'm not running the inefficent unorganized giant Union coverup I was running 6 years ago.


Sorry I have to agree specifically with this !

" Unfortunately, the cost of running this business, and employing you, is starting to eclipse the threshold of marginal benefit and let me tell you why: I am being taxed to death and the government thinks I don't pay enough. I have state taxes. Federal taxes. Property taxes. Sales and use taxes. Payroll taxes. Workers compensation taxes... Unemployment taxes.
Taxes on taxes. I have to hire a tax man to manage all these taxes and then guess what? I have to pay taxes for employing him... Government mandates and regulations and all the accounting that goes with it, now occupy most of my time. On Oct 15th, I wrote a check to the US Treasury for $288,000 for quarterly taxes. You know what my "stimulus" check was? Zero. Nada. Zilch."

Sorry Men but the reason business are going out is because when you go for a Business Loan, a Bond, Line of Credit .....YOU HAVE TO SIGN PERSONALLY ..which means if you default they take your house. Is it worth the risk ? no. When it becomes marginally profitable the same guy who gambles in business ...gambles OUT OF BUSINESS.

What really puts the knife thru the heart of small business people ...is why the F$%# are they bailing out all the crooks ? Politicians, Banks, Wall Street Boys, Insurance Co's, etc. The bailout small business's need is low taxes and stimulous to CONTINUE producing a product or service in a country that is TAXING US TO F$%^&*( death.

What happened to old fashion values, morals, efficency, which the employees were proud and loyal ... I was brought up this way ... the goverment encourages people to go on welfare ..they give the car service.

This is not one single problem .. this is a wide spread problem.