text: Here's a simple question for "business" owners -- if you don't pay a fair share of taxes then I have to pay more than I already pay and that means less "discretionary " money to spend at any business ... so where do I make up that difference?  
  
  So your profits go down a little, but your business stays viable.  Or you pay fewer taxes, I take up your slack and now I don't have any money left to use any products or services.  But you still use the same things I do that government supports except you want me to pay all the taxes and still support small businesses with the pennies I have left.
  
  I'm not living in a million dollar home, driving an eighty grand truck and spending weekends on my eighty grand boat like a lot of business owners I know.  But I've still worked hard for my money and never got the write-offs businesses get year after year.
  
  Welcome to the pain the rest of us taxpayers feel every year.