I can tell you one thing about COBRA...
Part of the first "stimulus bill" is a new requirement that as an employer that provides medical insurance I now have to pay 65% of your first 9 months of COBRA should you elect to keep your medical insurance.
If I didn't offer insurance I'm off the hook.
A provision of the new Public offering includes a $1000/yr penalty per employee if they opt for private insurance that I provide. (I pay, not the employee) Basically, they're trying their best to get me to drop insurance so the uninsured number goes up and they can look like heros.
Not to mention collecting their taxes for free, filing I-9's, Paying property tax (on EVERYTHING), matching SS, Unemployment tax (plus pay half your unemployment payments if you actually take it)
All these taxes and no vote for the business, sounds fair. Why do you think there is lobbying? So businesses can bribe politicians legally to keep from getting burned even worse than they are. Washington could give a s**t about my 20 person operation, yet they always promise to help out small business. Yet the tax breaks, and bailouts go to the big guys that don't answer to anyone.
You think the government is on your back? Welcome to my world.
How about this for a fix, for every $10k in taxes you pay you get 1 vote.
That's taxation with representation.