Almost as reflexive as \u201ctax cuts are the best remedies to fix the economy\u201d is the GOP charge that tax hikes \u201churt small businesses.\u201d It\u2019s a myth.<\/p>\n
Obama\u2019s tax hikes will impact households making more than $250,000 a year. <\/p>\n
Ninety-five percent of small businesses would be unaffected.<\/p>\n
And, contrary to GOPers* charges, \u201c\u2026most small businesses don’t create jobs. They tend to be lawyers, accountants and other professionals who earn some of their money from partnerships or otherwise organize themselves as a business entity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, small businesses are defined as those having up to 500 workers. The difference between one lone consultant and a 500-employee company is huge. Take it from me; I represent one of those categories. Guess which one.<\/p>\n
Read all about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n *Last week, \u201cHardball\u2019s\u201d Chris Matthews took one poor Republican congressman to task for using the term Democrat party. I\u2019m not sure why this affectation started, but clearly it\u2019s meant to insult the party of Andrew Jackson. So until the practice stops, I\u2019ll try to use either the term GOPers (rhymes with dopers) or Repugs, short for repugnant, to identify the party of Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover and, of course, W, or as he hates to be called, Junior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Almost as reflexive as \u201ctax cuts are the best remedies to fix the economy\u201d is the GOP charge that tax hikes \u201churt small businesses.\u201d It\u2019s a myth. Obama\u2019s tax hikes will impact households making more than $250,000 a year. Ninety-five percent of small businesses would be unaffected. And, contrary to GOPers* charges, \u201c\u2026most small businesses… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}