<i>"I'm, frankly, stunned that you believe that small business "don't spend that much on compliance". I spend about two days a month on it for our three-man company; that's more than 13% of my productivity gone to keeping us out of trouble with the government. Given that the other two people are part-time employees, it's about 6% of our entire available work. You consider that small, when it does nothing for our business' growth or for our customers?"</i><p>I consider it far less than a single full-time job, or even a part-time job.  Even if you could eliminate all of this overhead (which you can't), you wouldn't be able to hire a new employee with the savings.<p>Look, if you think my argument is that the tax code <i>shouldn't</i> be simple, you're not reading me correctly.  Low compliance costs should <i>always</i> be the goal.  But when Mark Cuban says <i>"reduce small business taxes to fix the economy"</i>, I think he's wrong.  It won't move the needle on hiring, because in 99% of the businesses that matter for employment, hiring is limited by consumer demand, not corporate taxes.