U.S. Rep. Ron Paul‘s Iowa campaign has reached out to farmers and gun ownersduring the past two weeks. Now the campaign has set its eyes on small business owners with the roll out of a “Small Businesses for Ron Paul” coalition.
Today, the House approved the Small Business Jobs Act, a deficit-neutral act to help small businesses grow, access credit, and hire new workers, 237 to 187. The Senate has already passed the legislation, which stalled in the upper chamber from July to September, so it now goes on to President More…
Today, the Senate voted to move forward to a final, majority-rules vote on the Small Business Jobs Act. Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio), who is retiring this year, crossed the aisle to break a Republican filibuster of the bill, which has been held up in the upper chamber since June.
Today, the Senate is taking up two provisions affecting small businesses — the Small Business Jobs Act and competing amendments that would reduce tax paperwork for small businesses.
Tax cuts are generally less stimulative than spending measures, but among tax cuts, a holiday or slashing of the payroll tax is one of the best options, the Congressional Budget Office reports. So why did President Obama suggest cutting investment and research and development taxes for businesses, rather than More…
The Wall Street Journal takes a look at a new Bureau of Labor Statistics analysis of what kind of businesses are gaining and shedding jobs. As is often true, small businesses are both the biggest creators of new jobs and the biggest destroyers of existing positions. Small businesses More…
The Senate has two weeks until it adjourns for the August recess, and Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has promised that legislation to help small businesses is the highest priority on his docket.
Normally, small business bills are the welcome fruits of bipartisan labor. But not this small business bill. More…
This evening, the Senate voted on a proposal by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), one of the most conservative members of Congress, to permanently end the estate tax via an amendment to the small business bill. The amendment failed, 39 to 59.
This morning, the National Federation of Independent Business, the small-business lobbying group, announced that its index of optimism among small business owners slid down in June. “Seventy percent of the decline this month resulted from deterioration in the outlook for business conditions and expected real sales gains. Owners have More…
In May, House Republicans created a new website, America Speaking Out, that allows regular folks to submit ideas for policy solutions on jobs, the debt, national security and other crucial topics. The GOP hopes to create a new party platform — specifically, an update of Newt Gingrich’s 1994 “More…
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