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16. Many small businesses are totally fed up with the "ACA"

If your income is variable from year to year, as many small businesses' incomes are, knowing that that situation will probably result in some type of penalty (in addition to the already mandated penalties of not complying) -- it sure doesn't make anyone I know too happy.

My income would be a lot more predictable if the Democratic-majority Congress had not paved the way for Amazon, starting in Spring 2007, to have a discounted postal rate, so that the small business owners then pick up the slack.

So my business pays more in US Postal Service fees, and then we cannot afford to offer free shipping such as Amazon does, then customers buy our product from Amazon, then we have to ship to Amazon at the inflated postal rate, then we have to get a smaller overall share of profits, as Amazon takes an additional 20% out of the mix.

If this were not the case, I would have a lot more money and would not grumble about some of the in's and out's of the ACA and ITS unfairness to small businesses.