[jnardiello]

Or in Italy. As you start to go solo, expect to spend 30-50% of your time dealing with paperwork and kafkian bureaucracy

[whatshisface]

Small business is a fist pumping cheer word for even our left here in the US - I remember being really surprised when I found out that it wasn't the same everywhere.

[coldtea]

It IS the same everywhere. Just that, everywhere, and in the US too, the cheer words don't match the reality.

[hueving]

What? A small business is very easy to run in the US from a government interaction perspective.

[cylinder]

Plenty of bureaucracy and disadvantage for small business in the US ... and really, this is the land of the megacorp. Most other countries have more palpable small business presence.

[nannePOPI]

I'm still paying taxes on money I didn't even earned.