The new entitlement class - Business Owners

[GoneOffShore]

If you start a business and fail, whose fault is it?

The government - local, state, Federal - with all those annoying regulations and taxes?
You know the ones - Paying people minimum (or living) wage, having to have liability insurance, business licenses, selling a product or service that is legal, doing a workmanlike job and/or does what it's supposed to do, disposing of by-products safely, having a safe workplace, health insurance.

Or yours?
Not having a business plan, not following the rules, treating employees badly - "I can't hire good people. They'd rather collect welfare." Not adapting to the business environment. Not delivering a quality product or service to customers. Not being paranoid enough, i.e. thinking that a competitor won't see the same opportunities that you do.

You have the right to start a business, but are you entitled to succeed?

[mucifer]

1. Nothing new about that. It's the way of our country since the 1600s

It used to be only white male landowners could vote.

[GoneOffShore]

2. It's less about the thread title than the question in the post.

So, what's your take on the question?

[GitRDun]

3. Respectfully, I disagree

Real small business owners do not spend any time thinking about regulations or government as they strive to make their business work. They're mostly like that pizza guy that hugged Obama.

It's the fake, or large "small" businesses that whine for more.

If you dig into the businesses that publicly bitch and moan about regulations (oil and gas, polluters, banks, pay day loan companies), Obamacare (businesses with 50+ employees), they are all pretty big from a revenue and profit perspective.

Those of us with businesses small enough to have our success or failure depend on what we do every day spend all of our time trying to make the right business decisions and NONE on entitlement.

The entitled are those who are either are ALREADY FAILED and looking for someone to blame, or successful and looking to slam the door behind them on others who may represent future competition.