To a certain extent small businesses are at a disadvantage.

In negotiations for employee benefits they do not have economies of scale like today's large businesses. Part of the problem is the disproportionate interest waning in meeting small businesses needs.

The emphasis is on the big sale, this quarter's profit, and not on long term business relationships. The service industry is not a charity but should realize their social responsibilities to help small business and elevate the lives of their small business employees to an equitable level with their large corporation peers.

If they don't, the government will. You will get the government way and that you all object to so venomously ... You reap what you sow ...