As a small manufacturing business, we are facing an unknown future in which one of the possible outcomes is that congress will impose so many taxes, mandates expenditures and regulations that would negate available spending power of most Americans to barely cover the essentials, even as our representatives pass energy legislation that will skyrocket the costs of everyone’s electricity. Then we would have no choice but to move our production overseas, provided we can find a route to doing that.
But I am also wondering what the “high growth” entrepreneurial investors are thinking- Aren’t they also faced with having the chunks of their profits extracted to fund a rapidly expanding federal government, complete with jails to house the offending citizens who do not comply with government –mandated expenditures?
In light of the darkest potential legislation becoming a manifest reality, why isn’t there a movement to slow growth investment? - This in the hopes that the current powers that be will be eventually replaced with more business friendly powers?
A slow growth business can remain below the proposed target for tax increases on profits and defer higher growth for later years when profits are not increasingly extracted to finance an expanding federal government.
Even as Andersen Design considers the option of moving our medium priced production overseas- we hope to maintain a high end, one of a kind production studios in the United States, which might survive as a slow- growth- under- the radar enterprise until the United States finds it’s way back to it’s constitutional roots. Then- it can be poised to grow at any pace.
Just a thought from outside of the “creative economy”. We need a genuine outsiders movement- even the Tea Party movement is indifferent.
