no one understands there is only so much fat on the bone. Cut too deeply into the carcas, and the carcas will roll over and die. Apply the same principle to small businesses. Increase Taxes and Expenses, one day the small businessowner will shut the door. Then what happens to his former employees -- in this economy they may become entitlement recipients. Of course, when the carcas bleeds out, there is nothing to feed the entitlement issuers; thus entitlements will end. They just do not get it