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President’s Plan “Will Hurt Nearly a Million Small Businesses”
Posted by Press Office on December 05, 2012

Speaker Boehner and House Republican leaders just finished up a meeting with small business owners who will get hit if President Obama raises tax rates instead of cutting spending. A former small business owner, Boehner kicked off the discussion by outlining the consequences of the president’s tax rate hikes, and Republicans’ responsible efforts to protect jobs:

“These small business owners that are with us today are here to highlight President Obama’s plan to raise tax rates instead of cutting spending. His plan will hurt nearly a million small businesses around our country, that will affect hundreds of thousands of jobs. Now this week, we made a reasonable offer to the White House that would avert the fiscal cliff… It’s up to the president to engage in this process, talk to us about where he’d like to go next.”

The Hill has previously noted that “Republicans hope to contrast their meeting with small business owners to Obama’s recent talks with CEO’s from large corporations.” Indeed, as Speaker Boehner said on Friday, “Small business owners are regular men and women from all backgrounds, who in today’s economy are facing challenges on a daily basis.” The House Small Business Committee has collected some of those everyday stories, which go into detail about the hurdles the president’s tax rate hikes presents.

Small businesses are protected from tax rate hikes in the reasonable and responsible offer Republicans have made to avert the fiscal cliff, calling instead for cutting spending and fixing our tax code – an approach supported by most Americans, and the president himself in 2011.

 
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  • mary jaffe commented on 12/13/2012
    Dear Speaker of the House, I am a retired small business owner and a democrat. I have always liked you as a person, but at this point in your carreer, you are now looking like you are turning out to be the laziest, out of touch,incompetent speaker that I have ever seen in my long life of watching the congress. You do represent all of America, you are a representative of your district and have been voted into office by at most 250 representatives who represent only a portion of the country. You lost the election, lost seats in the house and senate and you are postering like a man who thinks he is powerful, but does not know that the world has moved on. Your sticking to the rich tax cuts that have ruined our country is embarrassing and selfish, you have been willing to take the country down before and by doing it again you will have ruined what used to be a good party . Lazy people who are basically uneducated are now the logo for the Republican Party. The blue states send money to red states, the best times were when taxes were higher.The job creators you keep talking about have had 12 years to create these jobs and instead they crashed the economy and have taken down their communities. Shame on you Boehner, get some backbone and cut a deal with your representatives. I think anyone who runs for office nowadays should have to take a basic economy course and stop taking their stands from parts of the Bible. We christians are saddened by your greed and self interests. Do not go home, if Speaker Pelosis could do the health care bill you should be able to stay up all night and do the right thing.
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