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You're making the assumption that the average disgruntled worker can afford the 3 lawyers and 2 accountants that are REQUIRED to start a successful business in most of America due to the success that those who CAN afford lawyers and accountants have had in creating a slanted playing field to protect their own businesses.
Why do all the work it takes to compete when politicians are so cheap these days?
Three lawyers and two accountants? People can form, incorporate, register, and file annual reports with the state, and act as their own general agent. The only thing they might (or might not) need is one accountant.
O.k. Granny, ya got me - I said 3 lawyers and 2 accountants for exaggerated emphasis of a point.
The point being that if you plan on a business, even one as simple as landscaping or janitorial services, to last more than a few years and grow to a point where the owner can stop working 16 hour days, a lawyer and an accountant MUST be placed on some sort of retainer.
Why do we need a business environment that requires hired legal guns for even the simplest of service and retail endeavors if not to limit the competition factor for the corporations?
This is utter bullshit. I opened my first 3 stores before I ever hired a lawyer, and all my accountant did back then was file my annual return, which he prepared from the books we kept ourselves.
This is the typical uneducated, lazy excuse the left always throws out there. Opening a business is as simple as walking into the county courthouse and applying for license. If you're too stupid to do that without a lawyer and an accountant, you probably couldn't find the courthouse anyway.
What year?
No need to take personal shots here - A) you don't know me and B) my education and ambition are not what are being discussed here.
It was not aimed at you personally. I can't explain why you took it that way.
1998 was the first. The next two came between then and 2002.
However, I opened 2 new, separate businesses this year, and have another that will come on line in early 2011. All had capital investments, with new LLCs consisting of myself and a single partner, both with 50% ownership. We form each corporation on our own, file it with the SoS, make our own applications, and keep our own books. None of it is rocket science, but our basic understanding of accounting has served us well.
Why pay a lawyer to take your money? There is very little they do that is actually worth their fee, or that requires any expertise. We use them occasionally now, but only for a legal opinion or an inconvenient filing. If you run your business fairly and ethically, you have little to no need for a lawyer.
Perhaps it IS just me then. In 2004 I tried to start a businesses that I attempted to lace together prior to having the cash saved up to have an attorney on my payroll which was subsequently shattered by not complying with some stupid state occupancy tax code that I was completely unaware I was in violation of. It was retail photography, which I was good enough at to be a certified professional instructor for the corporation that I became disgruntled with.
Why can't the government just give everyone an annual salary of $100,000?
The point being that if you plan on a business, even one as simple as landscaping or janitorial services, to last more than a few years and grow to a point where the owner can stop working 16 hour days, a lawyer and an accountant MUST be placed on some sort of retainer.
Why?
I must have missed that day in class, because as I've said, that has not been my experience. Granted, my accountant saves me a ton of money (mostly personal though, not through the business itself) and does a lot of the grunt work we're tired of dealing with, but I have no need for lawyers, and I am a gun dealer. Why would a landscaper?
Why MUST I put a lawyer and accountant on retainer? For what purpose?
huh?One of the great things about capitalism is the ability to own your own business. If you don't like what you are being paid or the hours are too long - stop whining and start your own company. Government is not your mommy.
You're making the assumption that the average disgruntled worker can afford the 3 lawyers and 2 accountants that are REQUIRED to start a successful business in most of America due to the success that those who CAN afford lawyers and accountants have had in creating a slanted playing field to protect their own businesses.
Why do all the work it takes to compete when politicians are so cheap these days?
Just wondering if anyone wants to get rid of that socialist policy of limiting working hours/mandating extra pay for overtime. I'm sure that none of you (I assume that some of y'all are productive members of society) would mind working 12 or 14 hours for the same pay, right?
The American worker is the laziest worker out there. Even France does more by 9am than America does all day.
