How Government Creates Jobs

Friday 27 July 2012 - Filed under Uncategorized

This is how the government creates jobs. From the web site of what used to be my small organic fertilizer business in Kentucky:

Due to onerous state and federal regulatory and tax burdens, pure growth organics has had to close shop for good. Though we are a company which makes very little money on every transaction, and no profit in the 3 years we’ve been open for business (we’ve yet to even recover our initial startup costs), we’ve been subjected to taxes and regulations which cost more than we, being a small company, can reasonably afford.

We regret that we can no longer serve the growing number of organic gardeners, and hope to someday have an environment where government regulation and burdensome taxation are a much smaller factor in whether a small company such as ours can continue to serve our customers.

Government drive small businesses in to the ground by requiring them to meet unreasonable regulatory burdens and pay taxes which exceed their income. Then, the government representative on a recent telephone call concerning an “entity tax” (a tax that businesses must pay simply for existing with the minimum tax due having nothing whatsoever to do with income) had the nerve to say “I’m not the government, you’ll have to take your issues up with your legislator.”

I’d long ago come to understand that it may take years for my business to become successful (even if the definition of successful is simply breaking even in my costs). The state made that impossible. And then makes a vote that has no realistic value in pure mathematical terms the only way for me to address issues. You know, because, as I was reminded time and again by the government agent working for the department of revenue who repeatedly claimed not to be the government, that the law is the law.

2012-07-27  »  madlibertarianguy