CKNSLS,
I owned a very good engineering business for nearly 4 decades and I'd do the very same thing if I still had the business and had not sold and retired. The only smart thing to do or take a big unaffordable hit in expense which would drive the average business under in only a few years. Then what do you have other than a failed business and all laid off workers permanently.
Do you have any idea how tiny the average profit margin is in a business? 5% would be a real blessing and then that's taxed so heavily that it's far less than 5% in actual profit.
Enough, bye bye!