The worst thing that these proposed changes are doing is that they are taking away a business's ability to save money for the lean times by not allowing them to invest the money. We have an engineering business where 4 out of the 12 months we only have very small projects. In the past we used the money in the business and sometimes putting our personal money back into the business to pay our employees. But starting next year, we are laying people off. We will try to run as lean as possible and not hire any new people. 
What the non-business people don't understand is that in the end they are the ones who will be loosing their jobs.