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control@qms.ebay.sun.com writes:
>If you don't think that California and the US are hard on small 
>businees, I doubt if you have ever been in business. 

If you think California and the US are hard on small business, I doubt
that you have been to other countries or talked to businesspeople from
other countries.

Yes, US government regulations on business are a pain in the ass and I'd
be happy to see them made simpler.  In almost any country we compete with
they are worse.  It's much, much easier to start a small business in the
US than in most countries.

It also should be appreciated that much of the complexity of US tax forms
is due to all kinds of special cases introduced by business lobbyists as
special deals for their clients.  The US tax laws are full of clauses like
"businesses that meet conditions X, Y, and Z don't have to pay tax T"
where a little investigation shows that only one business in the whole
country meets the conditions and they are in the district of some
congressman who cast the swing vote to help the firm whose contributions
got him into office.


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