adrianboyer wrote
I just read one post too many bashing "greedy business owners" because they won't hire more people.
Do you people realize that as a business owner, I can have clerical (and many other) tasks performed overseas.... using virtual employees to do things like data entry, web design, graphic design, etc. for less money than it costs in AMERICA just to pay for all the taxes and ADMIN fees heaved on our plate by our government if I hired Americans to do the same job here.
Wake up to the real greed... YOUR POLITICIANS!
When it costs more in taxes and fees associated with all the burdens our government imposes on the people who provide (or used to provide) your jobs than it costs them to get ACTUAL PROFIT PRODUCING work DONE using foreign workers... I have to ask you...
Is BIG GOVERNMENT the solution... or is it the problem?
Want a link to prove my claim...
Check out ODESK.com, it's like Ebay in that it matches worldwide workers with worldwide employers (sellers of talent with buyers of talent).
Real convenient excuse..."I can't hire Americans because the government taxes me too much and it cuts into my profits so I have to hire virtual assistants from overseas at two bucks an hour".
There are virtual assistants right here in the good old USA. No, they don't work for two bucks an hour, but they work and they're Americans.
Nobody likes taxes and we'd all like to pay less. But stop the BS about "if I didn't have to pay business taxes, I'd hire Americans, but the government won't let me". You'd most likely continue to use Indian and Third World VAs even if you paid no business taxes---imagine the boost to your bottom line? It's capitalism, right?
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