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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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From: TimF4/19/2010 3:38:51 PM
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Entrepreneurs and Government
April 14, 2010, 11:16 am

I think a majority of small business owners and entrepreneurs are skeptical about government and taxes for a variety of reasons. Large companies tend to shelter their workers from the vagaries of changing and hostile government regulation, but there is no such shield for people who own their own business. At tax time this year, I had two thoughts about small business owners and taxes:

1. We see the cost of taxes directly. This year my taxes were X higher than I expected, where X is a pretty large five figure number (pretty large for me, at least). To pay off X, I took the money directly out of an order we were placing for capital investment and new equipment, reducing the order by X. At our company this year, there was a one-to-one scavenging of capital investment by taxes.

2. Unlike most workers, entrepreneurs actually write checks for their tax bill rather than have it deducted stealthily from their paycheck. I have always thought that this was the true purpose of withholding — not compliance, but to try to hide people’s tax bill from them. If everyone wrote a check (or four quarterly checks) each year for their tax bill (as I do), there would almost certainly have been a tax revolt years ago.

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