[Dan47]

Originally Posted by DAB

Many years ago i looked into setting up a woodworking business. quickly found that every .gov level will have their hand out: up front fees for business license, ongoing fees to keep said license, record keeping every day or week to track income and expenses so i could keep .gov informed of my progress. quarterly payments to .gov for 'gross receipts tax', income taxes, FICA taxes. did the math quickly, found that i'd be handing over about 1/2 my money to these 'partners' i didn't hire.

screw that.

i'm not working past lunch, and in my evenings just to keep .gov happy and full of my sweat labor.

now if i could simply keep what i earn, and not have to keep such close track of things...then i might reconsider.

This ^. Government has taken over our economy and things cannot get better until that gets fixed. Everywhere we look, there’s one problem after another produced by this entity, the ultimate “taker”.