Small Business Owner to Obama - You Owe Us!
By Wayne Allyn Root
FOXNews.com
President Obama and even FoxNews.com contributor Sally Kohn have it backwards. Business owners don’t owe credit to government for their success. Government owes us credit for its existence! Government doesn’t enable or empower business owners. We empower government.
Business owners would do just fine without
government. But government, government employees,
and the “takers” of society -- those who take checks
from government -- could not survive without us --
the creators, producers and taxpayers. Simply put,
we pay all the bills for government. We're the ones
you ought to be thanking.
Let me paint a picture even an economic illiterate
can understand. Let’s say you own a restaurant. Who
needs whom? Do the patrons of your restaurant need
you? No, they could choose any one of 1,000 other
restaurants in your city. They could stay home and
cook for themselves. Heck, they could even choose to
not eat -- most Americans could use a day off from
eating.
But you -- the business owner -- could not live
without customers. You desperately need their
patronage. You need to be nice, genuflect and show
gratitude. Without customers, you could not stay in
business. Every employee of your restaurant is
dependent on customers. Even ignorant leftists and
socialists can’t intelligently argue with that.
Now let’s extend that “business model” to
government. Government is the business. The
taxpayers are the customers -- just like that
restaurant example. Government doesn’t survive if we
don’t pay the bills. Government is dependent on
us...our hard work...our taxes. If we go on strike
and stop paying, government goes out of business.
The only difference is that in a free market
capitalist society, the customer freely chooses to
spend his or her money at the business of their
choice. But in the case of government, the customer
is limited to only one choice. If government can’t
pay the bills, instead of being forced out of
business, government just raises taxes and extorts
more money (legally, of course).
So why does Obama think we owe him? Why do
progressives think we should say thank you? Sure, we
need the things that help our society and economy
grow -- infrastructure, roads, bridges, traffic
lights, police, fire, garbage, sewers, hospitals,
airports, schools, and national defense. Though much
of that could be handled by private enterprise. But
Obama and others miss the crucial point -- we
(business owners and taxpayers) paid for that with
our taxes. We built it! You owe us a debt of
gratitude.
Without our business taxes, Social Security taxes,
payroll taxes, workers comp taxes, sales taxes,
property taxes, income taxes and estate taxes (we
even pay you after we're dead), there would be no
money for all those things that Obama values. Why
would we thank you, for things we paid for? When the
customer walks out of the restaurant, or hardware
store, or toy store, who thanks who? The business
owner thanks us for spending our money in his
establishment.
Instead of telling us how much we owe government,
the progressive leftists and socialists should be
thanking us. Without taxpayers -- especially high
income business owners -- you wouldn’t be able to
build roads, bridges, highways, schools or airports.
Your infrastructure exists because of our hard work.
Your schools exist because of rich business owners
who pay huge property tax bills. Your Social
Security, Medicare, welfare, food stamps and
unemployment insurance exist because of business
owners paying into the system.
Yes, President Obama, it all exists because business
owners do in fact work harder and smarter. And you
had better thank God we do it, or you’d be up the
proverbial creek without a paddle.
We're not dependent on government. Mr. Obama,
every government program, every government employee
and every handout addict are dependent on us. If we
don't write the checks, you don't get paid. Or do
you think money grows on trees?
Like any smart small business owner, government
should be treating its customers with honor, respect
and gratitude. Mr. Obama, you need to learn to say
“please” when you ask for our money and “thank you”
after we pay. Learn how to treat customers well --
or they will go away.
Ah, there’s the problem. You believe we can’t go
away. But it’s happening right now, before your
eyes. In response to the way you have treated
customers (i.e. taxpayers and business owners), they
are in fact leaving. American business is on strike.
That’s why there are no new jobs, and there won’t be
until after Election Day on Nov 6. The customers are
on strike.
Many are scaling back. Some are going underground
rather than work all day like slaves to pay 60% of
our earnings to you. Some are retiring, or at least
thinking about it seriously. A poll only days ago
reported that 83% of doctors are considering
retiring because of ObamaCare. So you see, Mr.
Obama, the idea of citizens being beholden to you
doesn’t work out so well.
And then there’s the big one -- Americans are
leaving for places that treat customers better. Even
Obama’s rich elite leftist crowd is refusing to pay
the higher taxes he wants. One of the co-founders of
Facebook renounced his citizenship and left for
Singapore -- where the income taxes are more
tolerable at 20% or less and the capital gains taxes
are zero. Even though he’s a latte-drinking,
tree-hugging San Francisco Bay area liberal, he left
America rather than pay Obama’s future oppressive
taxes.
Denise Rich could possibly be one of the top five
Democratic contributors in America over the past 20
years. She is tight with the Clintons. Yet she
renounced her citizenship, just days ago. She, too,
refuses to pay the massive Obama taxes that are on
the way.
So far it’s a trickle of ultra-rich that are
leaving. Soon, if Obama is re-elected, it could
become a torrent. I personally know hundreds of
business owners exploring their options right now,
many ready to leave the moment Obama is re-elected.
This is called running a business without any
customers. The taxpayers are unhappy. The only ones
left will be Obama’s voters -- the takers. But there
won’t be anyone left to take from.
And when that happens, Obama will learn an important
business lesson -- BANKRUPTCY.
Wayne Allyn Root is a capitalist evangelist and serial entrepreneur. He is a former Libertarian vice presidential nominee. He now serves as chairman of the Libertarian National Campaign Committee. He is the best-selling author of "The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gold & Tax Cuts." For more, visit his website: www.ROOTforAmerica.com.