American the land of opportunity! Hum ... might be the land of opportunity, but you have to work like a farmer in a field with just a horse drawn plow, swerve amongst the obstacles like you were driving an obstacle course and pay taxes like you had money to pay them. All while paying for that umbrella insurance policy just in case someone comes after you and wants to take everything you no longer have cause you sunk it all in your business :)
Today after getting some bad news about a small business of mine, I wonder .... in this land of opportunity, where you can do anything you want to .... WHY do they make it so hard? The government is the first obstacle with self employment taxes, personal property taxes, paper work so intensive that you don't have time to run your business.
Then there is this semi new thing called the Internet, and YES, like you use to have to have a yellow book listing, today you must have a web page to market your business. Then you must have a blog to talk about your business. Then you have to put your face on a book to do this thing called social networking, and then you have to twitter around the Internet proclaiming your every move to the world, just in case they care ... and all this to hope and pray that a thing called google will want to put you at the top of it's list.
Definition of "Small Business:" no accountant to file tax forms, no human resource director to do the hiring and firing, no marketing department to get the google thing happening, no janitor to clean the bathrooms, just me, myself and I.
Today I wonder ... why do they make it so hard on the little guy to just do what they do best.
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