The Small-Business Myth

Washington Post | Apr. 14, 2009 (Editorial)

Small business is the cute puppy of American tax policy, along with its related breed, the family farm. nvoke small business, and the inevitable response is the policymaking equivalent of awwww, how sweet. Suggest that a proposed change might hurt small business, and you might as well be advocating torturing puppies. Now we like a cute puppy as well as the next editorial board, and we're all for small business, too. But the problem with the way this ... Full Story »

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by Glenn LaBauve - Apr. 19, 2009

Nothing new here to accountants, but the general population needs to see these numbers. I have long been amazed at how those with money have been able to convince those without money, that the rich should not pay their own way. Most of the very weathly got their money tne old fashioned way, from their parentsafter bypassing the taxman.

If not for the very liberal inheritance laws, we would not have Donald Trump or the Hilton girls to entertain us, God knows they had to have gotten ... More »

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by Dwight Rousu - Apr. 19, 2009

Short editorial. It inserts facts to deflate the myth.

The popularity and durability of this myth has had a part in motivating voters to vote against their own self interests and in favor of the well to ... More »

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by Fred Gatlin - Apr. 14, 2009

This is a most interesting and informative commentary. This is an example of the great difference between fact and political position. What has happened to truth in politics?

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