Patterson in NY is siccing the tax man on pizza joints trying to squeeze a nickel out of a pepperoni.
Great timing on your comment....$2 trillion transfered to the middle east from the U.S. over the last 7 years of higher oil prices, numerous major financial institutions have failed in the past year, FNM/FRE blown out, $1 Trillion dollar bailout hearings on TV right now, U.S. debt SKYROCKETING. BTW, what more did you need to see.....a frickin nuke light off in your backyard.......you my friend have been successfully "incrementalized"........LOL!
Very KEEN observation - small businesses will die and multinational corporations will rule Power will be further concentrated One world gov here we come
I disagree with the concept you've layed out. However, I totally agree with the ancillary concept of moving people and businesses into the "new" financial grid (appropriate term for it btw). It goes like this... Since the invention of the internet by Al Gore, we the people were empowered at the expense of government losing power. Now, the government has the opportunity to have ultimate power... knowledge of and virtual control of the constituent wallets through a new centralized financial community with government oversight and new regulations. You will do business within the new financial grid or you and your business will be red-flagged. Maybe even "persecuted" as a money-laundering terrorist. This is the shift playing out now. It will take several years. Big Brother lives on. Osorico
Bush Dismantles Economic Programs for Small Business as Economy Continues Downward Spiral PR Newswire October 22, 2008 Ninety-eight percent of all companies in the United States have less than 100 employees. Twenty-seven million firms fall into the category of small business, and small businesses employ 56 percent of our nationâs population. These companies are responsible for over 90 percent of the new jobs, over 90 percent of U.S. exports and over 90 percent of innovation in American business. Congress realized Americaâs small businesses were the heart and soul of our nationâs economy when they passed the Small Business Act in 1953. Our nation is in the midst of one of the most dramatic economic downturns in modern history. More than ever, Americaâs 27 million small businesses need the economic benefits the Small Business Act was designed to provide. None of this seems to matter to President George W. Bush. Although President Bush regularly panders to small businesses in his speeches, his policies paint a different picture. At the same time that President Bush backed the $700 billion dollar Wall Street bailout, he continued to dismantle existing federal programs designed to assist American small businesses. During his two terms, President Bush has systematically dismantled each and every program established under the Small Business Act to assist American small businesses, especially those firms owned by women, minorities and veterans. President Bushâs anti-small business policies began during his first week as president. The first thing he did to dismantle Americaâs small business programs was to remove the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) from the Presidentâs Cabinet. Then he began to cut the SBAâs budget and staffing more than any other federal agency. Since 2003, over a dozen federal investigations have been released, which have all found rampant and government-wide fraud, abuse, loopholes and a blatant lack of proper oversight in federal small business contracting programs. Several of the investigations found that the Bush Administration has diverted billions of dollars in federal small business contracts to many of the largest corporations in the world. Current federal law requires that a minimum of 23 percent of the total value of all federal contracts and subcontracts be awarded to small businesses. However, every year the federal government awards billions of dollars in small business contracts to some of the largest corporations in the U.S. and Europe. Report 5-15 from the SBA Office of Inspector General states, âOne of the most important challenges facing the SBA and the entire Federal Government today is that large businesses are receiving small business procurement awards and agencies are receiving credit for these awards.â Several Bush officials have privately acknowledged that at least 50 percent of all federal small business contracts or about $70 billion a year actually go to corporate giants. Based on information obtained in a series of successful Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits filed against the Bush Administration, the American Small Business League (ASBL) estimates legitimate small businesses are being cheated out of over $100 billion each year. Last year, the Bush Administration adopted a policy that will allow Fortune 500 firms to continue to receive government small business contracts until 2012. (http://www.asbl.com/showmedia.php?id=592) Last month, Bush officials began to dismantle one of the governmentâs only programs to assist minority-owned firms, the Small Disadvantaged Business contracting program. Senator McCain has never objected to any of the Bush Administrationâs anti-small business policies. During more than two years of campaigning, not once has Senator McCain mentioned his intention to restore Americaâs small business programs. If Senator John McCain is elected president, he will likely finish what Bush started and completely dismantle all federal programs designed to assist American small businesses. *********************************************************************** They are all the same.....obama, bush, mccain....in the end, the actions to destroy small business are well underway! Americas is strong ONLY when small business is strong.....the indisputible truth!
I don't think this is a stretch at all. I honestly believe it's an 'open secret' that big business wants to crush small business in the U.S., and politicians on both sides of the aisle are more than willing to further that mission statement at the behest of their masters.
Being a small business owner, I can relate: ----------------------------- "The GET is a tax on the privilege of doing business in the State and is assessed on the gross (before tax) income earned by businesses in Hawaii. Generally, the tax is four percent of gross income which includes cash or gross receipts derived from the sale of tangible personal property. Gross income also includes receipts from the sale of services, contracting, commissions, interest, lease or rental activities, etc." ----------------------------- I just love having having the "privilege" of having to pay the state to do business here. Then pay them again at the end of the year. Fucking socialists.
What about businesses that only see 4% profit on the other end? So, the state just says 'thanks, you just worked 2009 for free.' Oh, that works great... Agreed. Fucking socialists.