Comments on: Costs soaring? Overhaul your business http://smallbusiness.blogs.cnnmoney.cnn.com/2008/11/03/costs-soaring-overhaul-your-business/ Editors from FSB magazine answer your pressing small-business questions. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:07:19 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Ernest A. Robbins http://smallbusiness.blogs.cnnmoney.cnn.com/2008/11/03/costs-soaring-overhaul-your-business/#comment-1058 Ernest A. Robbins Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:28:10 +0000 http://askfsb.wordpress.com/?p=754#comment-1058 I have a new Chef apparel company and would like to know how to apply for financial support to begin production of apparel line. Is there grant money avalible? I have a new Chef apparel company and would like to know how to apply for financial support to begin production of apparel line. Is there grant money avalible?

]]> By: V.H. Pittsburgh, PA http://smallbusiness.blogs.cnnmoney.cnn.com/2008/11/03/costs-soaring-overhaul-your-business/#comment-1045 V.H. Pittsburgh, PA Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:27:47 +0000 http://askfsb.wordpress.com/?p=754#comment-1045 I work a 60-70 hour week in a small family owned business, for what? Estimated taxes are killing us, and we can't afford to offer our employees health insurance. This company has been in business for 60 years. I see welfare & SSI customers come in to my store and the government will help buy them a car, and pay for the state fees to title and register this car. But my own sister who is physically disabled and epileptic can't get the help that she needs to survive. Why, because she's told her husband makes too much money. For the record, he is also "slow" and works at a minimum wage job. He can't afford health insurance either! BUT, if she had just one crack baby the government would be tripping over themselves to hand out money, services, etc. hand over foot. They try to make ends meet. If it wasn't for family members helping them out, they wouldn't make it. I had to buy them heating fuel last winter because they couldn't afford it, and were refused assistance! They TRY, so they can't get help. Every year our company has less & less profit. It doesn't make all that much to begin with! Yet the government keeps taking and taking from what little we have, while giving and giving to those that already have so much. It's very unfair. I will never see an income of $200,000 to $250.000 ever! That's a quarter of a million dollars. And these people are whining about having to pay a little more in taxes. Welcome to my world!!!!! I work a 60-70 hour week in a small family owned business, for what?
Estimated taxes are killing us, and we can't afford to offer our employees health insurance. This company has been in business for 60 years. I see welfare & SSI customers come in to my store and the government will help buy them a car, and pay for the state fees to title and register this car. But my own sister who is physically disabled and epileptic can't get the help that she needs to survive. Why, because she's told her husband makes too much money. For the record, he is also "slow" and works at a minimum wage job. He can't afford health insurance either! BUT, if she had just one crack baby the government would be tripping over themselves to hand out money, services, etc. hand over foot. They try to make ends meet. If it wasn't for family members helping them out, they wouldn't make it. I had to buy them heating fuel last winter because they couldn't afford it, and were refused assistance! They TRY, so they can't get help.
Every year our company has less & less profit. It doesn't make all that much to begin with! Yet the government keeps taking and taking from what little we have, while giving and giving to those that already have so much. It's very unfair. I will never see an income of $200,000 to $250.000 ever! That's a quarter of a million dollars. And these people are whining about having to pay a little more in taxes. Welcome to my world!!!!!

]]> By: David Frantz http://smallbusiness.blogs.cnnmoney.cnn.com/2008/11/03/costs-soaring-overhaul-your-business/#comment-1040 David Frantz Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:06:20 +0000 http://askfsb.wordpress.com/?p=754#comment-1040 Wake up and smell the coffee! It is no longer worth it anymore in The USSA : United Socialist States of AmeriKA You are allowing yourself to be made a FOOL of! You are paying : 30 % (plus) in federal taxes, 15 % in FICA taxes, 6 % (plus) in state income taxes, 8 % in other Gov't money grabs such as property taxes, fuel taxes, state sales taxes, SUTA & FUTA taxes Regulatory fees and permitting fees! I don't care how you do your 'business model' your sinking...period! WAKE UP!!!! you are being made a FOOL OF! You are killing yourself to support others on welfare & Gov't AID that are enjoying YOUR labors playing you for a FOOL, they PLAY, ENJOY the fruits of YOUR labors! The CROOKS getting mega million dollar BAIL OUTS loading the cash into private Jets heading to the Caymen Islands, and YOU PAY FOR IT ALL!!!!!!!! SUCKERS! Get out of DEBT.....CUT BACK and stop PRODUCING! ENJOY your LIFE! Wake up and smell the coffee! It is no longer worth it anymore in The USSA : United Socialist States of AmeriKA You are allowing yourself to be made a FOOL of! You are paying : 30 % (plus) in federal taxes, 15 % in FICA taxes, 6 % (plus) in state income taxes, 8 % in other Gov't money grabs such as property taxes, fuel taxes, state sales taxes, SUTA & FUTA taxes Regulatory fees and permitting fees! I don't care how you do your 'business model' your sinking…period! WAKE UP!!!! you are being made a FOOL OF! You are killing yourself to support others on welfare & Gov't AID that are enjoying YOUR labors playing you for a FOOL, they PLAY, ENJOY the fruits of YOUR labors!

The CROOKS getting mega million dollar BAIL OUTS loading the cash into private Jets heading to the Caymen Islands, and YOU PAY FOR IT ALL!!!!!!!! SUCKERS!

Get out of DEBT…..CUT BACK and stop PRODUCING! ENJOY your LIFE!

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