Joel Gross's Blog

After I graduated from college I got rid of my television.  What is life without television like?

• When I do watch television, I find it to be:
  • Fascinating.  I can see how easily it can suck you in and take hours each day.
  • Frighteningly bad.  So many of the television shows never actually go anywhere or teach anything or even have very good production values.

I had one of my newest employees, Jimmy, do some research into how ObamaCare will affect small businesses for me.  Here is what he found:

• Companies with 50+ employees are required to provide minimum health care package to employees or pay $2,000 per employee per year
• Increased premiums for smaller businesses
• 2.3% surcharge on medical device manufacturers
• Panel of people to determine what is or is not cost-effective
• 2.3% charge on any retired person making more than $80,000
• 16,000 new IRS employees to manage tax bureaucracy
• 10% excise tax on indoor UV tanning
• New health insurance tax on small businesses that is distributed across health insurance providers which will be $8 billion in 2014 and grow to $14.5 billion in 2018
• First decade the health insurance tax will impose new taxes of $87.4 billion
• 1099 reporting requirement requires businesses to issue a tax form for every transaction over $600
• Medicare payroll tax increases from 1.45% to 2.35% for individuals making more than $200k or couples making more than $250k

I don’t ordinarily blog about topics like weight loss or food to eat, but I thought that there is such a huge quantity of misinformation out there by people trying to sell you their crappy supplement or weird meal that I would publish some good information on the healthiest meal you can eat to lose weight fast.… read more “Healthiest Meal To Lose Weight Fast”

Below are all the photos from my rafting trip on July 6th, 2012 with Shawn & Melissa Sturzen and Justin White. It was a lot of fun!

What makes you happy?

This is a simple question that has always been a tough one for mankind to resolve effectively.

I have found that once I met a certain minimum lifestyle for myself, additional income or materials goods don’t make me happier. What makes me happier is spending time with people, accomplishing goals, and personal freedom.… read more “What Makes You Happy?”