Perhaps part of "bringing us more into line with our salaried counterparts" will involve a nice pension (like the ones government employees enjoy), and all the benefits that we forwent for the privilege of working 80 hours a week, never being able to take a proper holiday, digging into savings during lean times etc. so that we could pay our staff, and on and on. I have no private pension. I've been responsible for myself and others for most of my adult life, and the investments in my company are supposed to fund a modest retirement. If the government decides to grab 50% of that, it will be pretty grim. I'm a 62 year old woman, btw, and like most small business owners, by no means a millionaire. This whole thing reeks of hypocrisy and cheap populism.