Change Business Owners Can Believe In

on May 22, 2026

Published in Jokes

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As the Manager of a small business that employs 80 people, I have finally resigned to the fact that someone from a political party I don't like is President, and that our taxes and government fees will increase.

To compensate for the tax increases I figure our customers will have to see a price increase of about 8%, but due to the dismal state of our economy we can’t increase prices right now, so we’ll have to lay off seven of our employees instead. This problem has really been eating at me, as I believe we’re all family here and I just don’t know how to choose who will have to go. Everyone has families and our employees are good people.

So this is what I did. I walked through our parking lot and found seven campaign bumper stickers for the person who won on our employees’ cars, and decided that these employees will be the first to be laid off. I can’t think of a more fair way to approach this problem.

If you have a better idea, let me know. Sincerely, a small business owner.