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Originally Posted by LianneMigiano

The road impact fee was a significant impact on this growth process. The amount shown in the video gives everyone an idea of what this impact is. And every business writes off every single little expense that we homeowners never could - and then, they pass that on to us as costs of their products! They write of cars, wages to employees (even when those wages are insufficient to make a living wage), the light bill, the telephone bill etc etc. Can you write those off? Of course not! I'm not going to have a "pity party" for all those businesses when they write off all those expenses.

Not sure what you considering as a "write off", wages, utilities, vehicle expenses, etc. are not something that just goes away, it is calculated into the cost of doing business and the product sold.

I run a business and I have to calculate everything into the price I charge and can't just "write off" anything. I have to consider my equipment cost (drones, batteries, maintenance, and repairs), my fuel costs wear and tear for my truck, insurance cost, electricity for my home office to turn the computers I used for editing and charging the batteries. All these are calculated into the rates I charge, anything left over is considered profit that I have to pay taxes on. What's left after taxes is the fruits of my labor, my wages for all my work, based on the last year's numbers I'm making about $4/hr.

The nice thing about owning your own business is that you only have to work half days, the other 12 hours are yours to do with as you wish.