Small business owners can only work so hard...
We can--and now do--work longer hours, reducing otherwise higher labour costs.
We can utilize "just in time" ordering, reducing the high cost of having inventory sitting on a shelf gathering dust. Unfortunately that system's result--stress--can't be claimed as an expense under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
While nary a small business owner isn't aware of increasing costs, it's Year End when those increasing costs--more correctly, what comprises them--becomes very clear.
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| "All the people who could afford to leave Ontario", a decidedly tongue-in-cheek depiction of British Columbia. |
The culprit is overhead.
It doesn't decrease if business owners work harder.
Or work smarter.
A six year comparison (2008 through 2013) for Highlands Golf:
Water taxes: 119.2% increase
Hydro: 52.964% increase
Phone (telus): 14.52% increase
Vehicle (six-month) insurance: 62.245% increase
Property taxes (3-year comparison due to a reclassification by B.C. Assessment): 28.329% increase
I didn't think so.
I'm left grateful for small mercies:
Highlands Golf isn't open in February when British Columbia's newly-proclaimed new Statutory Holiday, called Family Day, is observed.
"One less Stat Holiday to pay an employee," offers Kia.
Thanks for that, Christy Clark.
The verdict is clear: we should all move to the USA!
ReplyDeleteyes yes we should better wages and everything costs half as much
DeleteBC really means the Province of British Columbia, Canada. The Bring Cash is a sarcastic referral about the crappy environmental, tree hugger, anti development, anti business left tard mentality of the population and their politician puppets. This makes BC a poor, cheap slave job province compared to Alberta (AB), Saskatchewan (SK), Ontario (ON), and others who have more brains to make money and have wealthier citizens. The BC capital city Victoria BC is probably one of the most uptight, cliquey, restricted city metros in all of Canada. You will have no job, no money, no friends, no amusements, and probably end up a cheap wage slave worker. That is why BC, bring cash and your own friends with you. You will not find any there. Read the comments on www.ratemyemployer.ca, www.topix.com (Victoria BC Canada), www.yelp.com, www.thedirty.com, Yahoo Answers, BBB, etc.
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