Many small businesses quit because they cannot afford all of the taxes, required workers comp, Social Security among other things and still expect to compete with huge companies and make a profit.
On the healthcare issue....you say the other Countries system works fine?? Really?? A person waits on a "board" to decide whether the Patient is "worth" spending the money on them for treatment. THAT is not good healthcare. THAT is a society run by a Gov't board deciding who lives and who dies. When did it become MY resposibility to make sure the other folks in this Country (including illegals) get medical care? It is NOT my responsibility. If you can't afford health care than you need to change jobs to an employer that has some or better benefits or take a second job to pay for your own. I did. That is one of the large problems in this Country. Everyone thinks he/she has a "right" to EVERYTHING. Boo Hoo That is NOT how this Country was founded but that is certainly will be the death of it.

 

It's "paid" not "payed"!!!

 

The TSA rules!

You are very misinformed. I wonder where that comes from. I own a small business and can tell you have no knowledge of business operations, but after reading your post, I'd rather you gain some knowledge on other subjects.

 

everyone is underpaid, not just the TSA!!!

 

Please place me in this category. There is nothing conservative about Fox News and they are further making a mockery of everything it means to be a conservative. As for the TSA, the majority of the ones I deal with are decent people but are usually not very bright. I seem to end up chewing them out more than I care to because they are delaying my flights. At my airline, we deal with the TSA much more closely than most airlines.

 

. . . . . . according to Glenn Beck.

Please follow along with me on my 3rd Grader's chalk board that is behind me.

Here we go . . . . . (please keep in mind this post is 100% factual and based on Glenn Beck type "logic" and "news" reporting)

On November 15 of this year, just a few weeks ago, on his Fox News show, Glenn Beck launched an attack on the AFL-CIO and its president, Richard Trumka, claiming that the "Communist Party USA is admitting to the party's working relationship with Richard Trumka ... and the AFL-CIO."

Glenn Beck is quoted as saying from this "news" cast: "If you're in the unions, do you realize that your money, your union dues, are going to stand with the communists and the revolutionaries in this country?"

Draw a big fat chalk circle around the above AFL-CIO "fact". Draw a line to the other side of the chalk board, make another big fat chalk circle and fill it in with the following fact:

Directly from the ALPA web-site: "ALPA is the only pilot union affiliated with the AFL-CIO. ALPA’s president serves as an AFL-CIO Executive Council member and as a vice-president of the AFL-CIO’s Transportation Trades Department, which represents 35 member unions in the aviation, rail, transit, trucking, highway, longshore, maritime, and related industries."

Now draw a third big fat chalk circle and connect the circles with chalk lines . . . the only reasonable conclusion a patriotic American can make is that ALPA is directly affiliated with, directly participates in, and is fully organized with the Communist Party.

Only in America, can a true patriot like Glenn Beck be paid $2 million per year to bring these news facts to light. And oh yeah, according to Forbes magazine of this year, Mr. Patriotic himself makes an additional $30 million or so from his radio and publishing businesses.

I am now off to wrap myself in the American flag and watch the news. Guess which channel I am going to watch?

 

I’m not sure why your tone is in jest. Richard Trumka is the one sitting on the economics panel at the white house. The same White House whose carbon trading would cause energy prices to “necessarily skyrocket”. Our money at ALPA is kicked up to AFL-CIO and helped elect this current leadership. So in essence, we are paying to put ourselves out of a job.
Trumka also makes his rounds on RT, or Russian Television. He makes no attempt to hide his ideas about redistributing the wealth. Say what you want about Beck and Fox, but please use facts on who these people are.

 

So you then, comrade, factually, are a Communist.

 

Dash

I may regret this , but here goes.
1. I can't find anything that states that Trumka is on the white house economics advisory panel. However, I do hope he is. I would want to see the vastly outfunded voice of labor get at least a bit of say in the corporate oligarchy that has run public policy for the last 30 years or so.
2. I Googled Russian TV. A search on their web site for Richard Trumka got zero hits.
Even if he was on it..so what? News Flash: The USSR collapsed in 1991 and along with it their Communist Party. The current Russian model still has its centuries of authoritan legacy, but the Communist order of Govt.-no. It is more similar to a fascist oligarchy such as we have in some South and Central American countries.
3. The idea of a Carbon Tax is waaay beyond the scope of such a board, but it does have its merits.(and yes, it does have drawbacks as well). A carbon tax, however, will appear to be inconsequential compared to the economic problems we are having..and will have...as we try to grow the worlds economy while unable to increase global oil production.
4. As far as redistributing wealth goes, this is exactly what has been happening in the USA for some 30 years or so now. The only problem is that it has been a redistribution of wealth from the vast majority to a tiny minority at the very top. Any attempts at redistributing wealth in the manner you mean is just trying to slow the flow of wealth (from almost everyone) that is currently going to the top.
The redistribution of wealth to the uber-wealthy has occured because of policy,law, regulation..(both enacted and removed) and tax changes that have been a gift to this small minority by your elected leaders. (not by any extraordinary work or skills of that small group)
The effects of this redistribution of wealth are profound and are reflected in the economy we currently have.
These are emperical facts and easily checked. Any attempt by Trumka to reverse, or at least slow down this trend, I'm all for.
Good for the AFL-CIO.

 

Use LexisNexis instead of Google.

Okay, that requires a subscription. Google is okay for things like researching topics for a doctoral thesis, or finding out if the symptoms you have are cancer, but for really important stuff (like proving your point on an anonymous internet forum) you need to get the big gun - LexisNexis. What source do you suppose the news media use when doing this type of research?

One final point: don't get corralled into trying to prove a negative