While I don't have a lot of empathy for the author who stubbornly charged blindly into this situation I think there is very real problem here. Small businesses

While I don't have a lot of empathy for the author who stubbornly charged blindly into this situation I think there is very real problem here. Small businesses are more global than ever before and it's fairly normal for a business to want to hire an employee in another state. Making it prohibitively expensive to do so in the sense that the minimum bar is to consult with a lawyer about all the implications and use an accountant to fill out the paperwork pertaining to those implications significantly curtails the options available to the small business.