Many of these people have formed partnerships and collectives, but many are also lone wolves. Doctors work independently, but depend upon the single-payer National Health Fund for reimbursement at rates set by committees of doctors and fund managers. Here are the thousands of people in society who prefer to work alone or in small groups to the collective or corporation. The law allows such entrepreneurs to employ up to twelve employees before they have to transform the business into a worker-owned enterprise, and such employees have specific entitlements to minimum wage, vacation, sick leave and workers compensation. The traditional Bergonian outlook and revolutionary doctrine both regard the collective enterprise as the main unit of economic activity, not the individual.
People also pay no personal property taxes .
But businesses must pay value-added taxes and payroll withholding. And everyone pays sales taxes , which often fund specific programs. For example, the gasoline tax finances highways, airline ticket taxes fund airports, and excise taxes on bigger cars fund air quality monitoring. Bergonians also tax meat . Workers generally are motivated to work collectively to build prosperous enterprises, but they cannot if the system overall is unstable and unpredictable.