Well you know I speak 100% truth and I am not making anything up. I speak of this because I know of this.
You didnt comment on my thoughts regarding reducing sales to bring in costs..that happens all the time. If your fixed costs are too high relative to sales, then reduce the fixed costs and see what you can do to navigate sales to a point where you increase profitability.
Point being something similar to this..
Say you decide to rent a fresh new warehouse to run the business out of, it makes more sense financially because it is more efficient, lower utilities, closer location, better situation all around. Well what if you are not able to fully utilize the space and that cost ends up being too much that you might need to adjust and scale back? That happens ALL THE TIME.
Evaluate every single fixed cost and see if that percentage of cost of sales is a wise use of money..maybe you have to decide to change the way you do production or maybe you pick a location further away which means a bit more of a commute but you save on costs..or maybe instead of buying a piece of equipment you lease it..or maybe you learn how to repair your own equipment. Maybe you evaluate that your business hours arent needing to be open for 1 hr a day so you reduce 1 hr and that way you cut labor costs. Maybe you find a way to collectively ship things with others in your area to reduce costs.
Sometimes businesses with lousy margins will REDUCE sales to actually increase income...reducing lower margin sales or reduce fixed costs and try to maximize your throughput to increase margins..
Another way to minimize costs is to evaluate each and every product you make or service you offer...evaluate every single margin one every single product or service. Make a decision to eliminate or reduce the lowest margin products/services or if you must increase prices, do it on your worst margin products/services because if you lose sales there it hurts you the least. Find ways to utilize scale to increase margins on your worst products, or bundle and package them with higher margin items to drag those margins up.
Really all I am saying is get creative..and in the end if all this is a no,no,no,no then maybe you arent equipped to run a business if you cant find cheap enough labor to hire away from Staples and maybe you decide instead of a 10 man operation its only a 2 man or 1 man...and you try to pound out a salary doing it yourself.
Blaming the government sure isnt the solution, bemoaning healthcare for your employees and yourself isnt the solution.
As we have seen over time, some products and services are not feasable for the small biz owner, it just isnt possible to do things due to scale issues and fixed costs, let alone whatever labor costs are.