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So, only businesses that can afford to pay "living wages" should be allowed to operate and hire employees?  I love how the mind-set is that small businesses need to create jobs, but the business owners are expected to pay more than they can afford to create those jobs.  In some cases, if the business owners pay those living wages, their own take home pay will drop below a living wage.  This type of mind set is why suburbanites live in a land of large corporate chain stores.
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We understand each other
Do the work yourself if you cannot afford to pay a salary
Nannies and butlers and garddeners are a luxury. The jobs you are thinking of providing will not get anyone out of povery, they will be the working poor who subsist on section 8 housing and food stamps and qualify for medicaid.
You are expecting their salaries to be subsidised by the tax man, and want to pocket the differnce. 
If your profits were really so low, you should not be in business in the first place[/quote]

Excuse me?  We're a capitalist state, not a communist state.  Businesses are in business to make money, whether that is measured in the thousands or millions of dollars.  A small home business that a person runs on the side is as legitimate a business as Walmart.  If I can find someone who wants to come to my home and work for $5/hr helping do things like answer e-mail, put products into boxes and drive them to the post office, then it should be fine.  It's a relationship between the employee and employer.  Sometimes you can make a job worthwhile in other ways than just wages.  I know some people who would rather have a flexible 20-30 hours when they can choose when to come in and work and would take less money to have that option.  Why you think your values should determine whether my employee is satisfied with the salary offered is beyond me.  My employee can opt to go work for minimum wage somewhere with defined hours where she loses her flexibility that may cause her family significant problems or she can make enough money to augment the family budget at hours where she can work.  Note: I don't have a home business, but I know people who work situations like this.  I have a friend who does part-time website management for a small business.  He works from home on this woman's home business web-site.  He can work any hours he wants including sometimes midnight to 4:00AM.  He loves it and takes a lower wage in order to be able to work whatever 20 hours/week he wants.  She emails him what should go up on the web-site and he implements it.  Yes, he makes much less than he could make in an office, but he loves the fact that he can work from home, that he does not have to be at work at a given hour every morning (one of the reasons he was laid off was because of repeated tardiness).  Why should you be the arbiter of whether he has this opportunity or not.

You are clearly anti-small business.  Go back to your corporate job and let the grass roots businesses actually find the ways to make their businesses survive.  You are the reason that the country is turning into one huge  strip mall with every city in the country looking exactly identical and why large chains are driving small businesses out of business.[/quote]

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