"Small business" hard to define in Bush tax cut debate
“Nobody can agree what a small business is,” said Will McBride, an economist at the conservative-leaning Tax Foundation, which backs lower taxes for all business.
Facing a tight re-election fight, Obama is pushing Congress to extend for one year most tax cuts enacted in 2001 under Republican President George W. Bush. Those lower rates expire in December.
House Republicans are planning to pass a measure this month to extend all the Bush-era tax cuts, including for the wealthiest.
Obama, stressing tax fairness, said richer taxpayers can afford to pay more taxes, especially at a time of annual deficits topping $1 trillion.
“I might feel differently if we were still in (budget) surplus,” Obama said during an announcement at the White House on Monday. “But we’ve got this huge deficit, and everybody agrees that we need to do something about these deficits and these debts.”
Nearly every Republican lawmaker who blasted Obama’s pitch used the term “small business” to brand it a disaster.
“Small businesses who are struggling to make payroll and working families who have tightened their belts to meet their budgets cannot afford to be hit with a massive tax increase come January,” Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said.
Democrats say that line of attack is misleading, pointing out that 97 percent of small businesses would not
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