Push Them Hard Enough and the Productive Class Will Opt Out of Servitude

This is a great argument in favor of higher taxes on large enterprises and wealthy individuals. Small businesses aren't being victimized by government, they're being victimized by large companies that compete with them for customers and resources, and that offload their real costs on the public, all while shirking the taxes that would pay for infrastructure like public healthcare and transportation, and eliminate much of the burden on small-to-medium businesses.

>My partner and I had a ready response when employees hinted that we must be raking in big bucks: here's the keys to the front door, payday is on Friday. That shut them up in short order because they could see we meant it: it's all yours, including meeting payroll in a bad month out of your own pocket.

Gee with a management style like this I can't imagine why the author is struggling to turn a profit

I was interested until the article kept writing "Tax Donkeys" repeatedly. No mention of private healthcare costs, either, eh?

They might—but someone will replace them. As long as there are needs going unmet, there’s money to be had, and people willing to believe they’ve got it figured out. That’s why industries like game dev are so shitty—no shortage of people who want in.

I really don't think these are valid complaints. First, if you work for a boss there's always a big overhead you pay (for your boss, HR, the company building, trips for management and senior coworkers, etc). Second (correct me if I'm wrong!), I think the USA is one of the places where the government taxes for entrepreneurs are quite low, compared to many other developed countries.

Haha. "Multiple of base year" on the y axis, starting with 1950 when industrial output was very large, and the cold war (responsible for much of the public increase) was just getting started? Nice try. Business owners need to stop voting up so many extreme idealogues, that's the problem.

The State is also using the private sector for building up its services and infrastructure, and therefore whatever increased costs the State has usually come from the private sector, which overprices its products/services when the customer is the State. The State doesn't mind paying more than what the market pays because it's not their money after all, it's the tax payers' money.

Perhaps the above conclusion is not totally valid in USA, but parts of it are, and parts of it are also valid for various states across the globe.

Isn't it time to rethnink everything? perhaps stop with taxation altogether, and fund public services with their own currency? and maybe put some time limits that the new currency is valid in order to avoid inflation?

I don't know if the above will work, but it could be on the right track.