With more regulation, comes more «stuff» that a firm has to do which will lead to a false sense of security,
particularly by the business owners.
Not exact matches
But it is
by no means the be-all, end - all indicator,
particularly for small
business owners, as only 40 percent of the establishment surveys come from
businesses with 20 or fewer employees.
Patent lawsuits are stifling innovation at the highest levels (see: Apple, Google) all the way down to tiny, potentially high - growth software startups
by forcing
business owners,
particularly in the technology space, to spend excessive sums of money to defend their products.
For example, a Heritage Foundation document titled «Time to Repeal Federal Death Taxes: The Nightmare of the American Dream» emphasizes stories that rarely, if ever, happen in real life: «Small -
business owners,
particularly minority
owners, suffer anxious moments wondering whether the
businesses they hope to hand down to their children will be destroyed
by the death tax bill,... Women whose children are grown struggle to find ways to re-enter the work force without upsetting the family's estate tax avoidance plan.»
Rather,
by pushing premiums higher, these taxes will force more
business owners —
particularly small
business owners - to reduce or eliminate coverage for their workers, driving up the ranks of the state's uninsured, or shift more of the cost to their employees.
Many members of the state's
business community say the governor's efforts to rebuild New York's economy —
particularly upstate — will be undercut
by a higher minimum wage, which small
business owners insist will hurt them disproportionately.
Elias LJ then set out four reasons why the valuation exercise was a «
particularly daunting and speculative one, and indeed suggest that the value of the
business was probably considerably less than the [husband] now submits»: «First, the value of a hotel
business of this kind will depend principally on the goodwill, but that is in part located in the premises and in part it is a personal goodwill generated
by the way in which the
owners run the hotel... The husband is now contending that the profits have remained much the same quite irrespective of who has been running the
business which, if true, would suggest that the goodwill lies principally in the premises themselves.