“It is hard to be enthusiastic about the economy's prospects when house prices are falling: Households spend less, small business owners can't use homes as collateral for loans and local governments are forced to cut jobs and programs as property-tax revenue disappears.” HardUseHomeGovernmentJobsFallHouseEconomyCuttingTaxesProgramPropertyDisappearLocalsOwnersHouseholdSmall BusinessRevenueLoanEnthusiasticProspectsBusiness OwnersLocal GovernmentSmall Business OwnersCollateralProperty TaxesHouse Prices Author:Mark Zandi
“The American economy is driven by small business. And there's nothing basically to create incentives for small businesses. We've done no tax reform. They're the highest-taxed group in the country. And corporations can go anywhere they want and do whatever they want. Small businesses have to stay.” WantCountryDoneEconomyGroupsTaxesHighestDrivenReformCorporationsSmall BusinessIncentivesAmerican EconomyTax Reform Author:Ed Rollins
“Providing tax relief and reducing regulations leads to job creation and new economic opportunities for our small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy.” JobsOpportunityEconomyEconomicCreationTaxesReliefRegulationProvidingSmall BusinessReducingBackboneJob Creation Author:Cathy McMorris Rodgers
“5: Social security will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country! 1944: The G.I. Bill will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country! 1965: Medicare will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country! 1994: Health care will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country!” CountryCareSocialBreakSecurityHugeCitizensTaxesBillsBurdenLibertarianOur CountryHealth CareSocial SecuritySmall BusinessMedicareTax Burden Author:Joseph Conrad
“When you can identify a specific tax that people don't like, and this is one that was designed for the Rockefellers, for the Carnegies in 1916, to fund World War I, but now it's beginning to hit small business people, real estate holders, a lot of people well down the income scale who just spent a life building assets. Suddenly they get hit with a 40%, 50% tax rate.” PeopleWorldWellsWarRealBuildingTaxesRateScalesIncomeWar Of The WorldsFundAssetsWorld War IEstatesSmall BusinessCarnegie Author:Paul Gigot
“I think what grows the economy is when you get that tax credit that we put in place for your kids going to college. I think that grows the economy. I think what grows the economy is when we make sure small businesses are getting a tax credit for hiring veterans who fought for our country. That grows our economy.” ThinkingCountryKidsGrowsEconomyCollegeTaxesCreditOur CountryVeteranSmall BusinessHiringGoing To College Author:Barack Obama
“If you bring [tax] rates down, it makes it easier for small business to keep more of their capital and hire people. And for me, this is about jobs. I want to get America's economy going again. Fifty-four percent of America's workers work in businesses that are taxed as individuals. So when you bring those rates down, those small businesses are able to keep more money and hire more people.” PeopleIfsWantAbleJobsAmericaIndividualEconomyFourEasierTaxesPercentWorkersRateFiftyMore MoneySmall Business Author:Mitt Romney
“Our party [Republicans] has been focused on big business too long. I came through small business. I understand how hard it is to start a small business. That's why everything I'll do is designed to help small businesses grow and add jobs. I want to keep their taxes down on small business. I want regulators to see their job as encouraging small enterprise, not crushing it.” WantLongHas BeensHardHelpingBigsJobsGrowsPartyRepublicanTaxesAddFocusedCrushEnterpriseSmall BusinessBig BusinessRegulators Author:Mitt Romney
“I think the knowledge about how legislation really affects small businesses is extremely valuable. If you haven't run a small business, then you don't have this kind of knowledge about how a regulation passed or taxes increased affects your bottom line. If you recognize that every new regulation takes that much more time to comply with, requires that many more employees, then it really gives you that foundational basis to make those decisions.” IfsThinkingGivingKindRunningLinesDecisionHavensTaxesBasesBottomValuableEmployeeMore TimeRegulationLegislationSmall BusinessBottom Line Author:Kristi Noem
“I've built companies, I've created jobs, I know the frustration of small businesses with higher taxes.” KnowsJobsCompanyHigherTaxesBuiltFrustrationSmall Business Author:Rick Scott
“I have advocated for rolling back regulations, simplifying the tax code and moving to zero-based budgeting - policies that will support small businesses and raise up the middle class.” MovingClassSupportMiddlePolicyTaxesRaisesCodeMiddle ClassZeroRegulationRollingSmall BusinessRaise UpBudgeting Author:Carly Fiorina
“The share of income that small business people are paying in taxes is the lowest it has been in 65 years - since Obama has cut taxes 18 or 22 times for small business.” PeopleYearsHas BeensCuttingShareTaxesIncomeLowestSmall Business Author:Austan Goolsbee
“In six short years, small business owners and family farmers will once again be assessed a tax on the value of their property at the time of their death, despite having paid taxes throughout their lifetime.” YearsValuesTaxesSixPaidPropertyLifetimeDespiteOwnersFarmersSmall BusinessBusiness OwnersSmall Business Owners Author:Doc Hastings
“Tax cuts continue to benefit families, seniors, and small business owners, as evidenced by unparalleled economic growth in Nevada and across the country.” CountryGrowthCuttingEconomicTaxesBenefitsOwnersSeniorSmall BusinessEconomic GrowthTax CutsBusiness OwnersSmall Business OwnersNevada Author:Jon Porter
“The best thing government can do now is get out of the way and let small businesses innovate, hire and grow. Unfortunately, this is unlikely to happen unless Washington stops increasing regulations, taxes and other blocks to business growth.” WayGovernmentHappensGrowsGrowthCan DoTaxesBlockBest ThingsRegulationSmall BusinessUnlikelyBusiness Growth Author:Oliver DeMille
“"Thanks," many small businesspeople are saying, "but no thanks. Forget the government credits and loan programs, and just get rid of all the bureaucratic red tape and high taxes which make it hard to build businesses, hire employees and meet our payroll."” HardGovernmentForgetTaxesRedProgramCreditThanksEmployeeTapeSmall BusinessLoanPayrollRed TapeHigh Taxes Author:Oliver DeMille
“So I'm not proposing anything radical. I just believe that anybody making over $250,000 a year should go back to the income tax rates we were paying under Bill Clinton. Back when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest budget surplus in history, and plenty of millionaires to boot. ... At the same time, most people agree that we should not raise taxes on middle-class families or small businesses -- not when so many folks are just trying to get by.” PeopleShouldTryingYearsBelieveJobsClassMillionsEconomyMiddleTaxesRaisesAgreeBillsClintonRateFolksIncomeRadicalPlentyBudgetsMiddle ClassBootsSmall BusinessMillionaireIncome TaxBack WhenSurplusNew JobJust BelieveMiddle Class Family Author:Barack Obama
“Finally, the House is working to require a comprehensive federal review of IRS regulations with a follow-up report to Congress on possible actions to reduce the tax paperwork burden imposed on small businesses.” ActionHouseTaxesCongressBurdenReportsReviewsRegulationSmall BusinessComprehensiveIrsPaperworkFollow Up Author:Michael K. Simpson
“President Obama shopped at a book store to help support Small Business Saturday. He bought fifteen books. His tax policies and his health care law have been so brutal on small businesses the only way they can survive is if he shops there personally.” IfsWayHas BeensBookHelpingCareLawPresidentSupportPolicyTaxesStoresHealth CareShopsPresident ObamaBrutalFifteenSaturdaySmall Business Author:Argus Hamilton
“In the U.S. Senate, in the short term we need to reduce the tax burden on hard working individuals, families, and small businesses.” NeedsHardIndividualTermHard WorkTaxesBurdenSenateSmall BusinessShort TermTax Burden Author:Joni Ernst
“The marginal tax rate for high income earners is going up. Small businesses are no longer enjoying some of the exemption from payroll tax. Now there will be carbon taxes.” EnjoyTaxesRateIncomeCarbonSmall BusinessPayrollExemptionPayroll TaxCarbon Tax Author:Chris Alexander
“Then by the springtime, you'll see us moving an effort to cut taxes for working families, small businesses and family farms to reform our business taxes in this country so that American businesses can compete more effectively with businesses around the world.” WorldCountryMovingEffortCuttingTaxesAround The WorldReformFarmsSmall BusinessSpringtimeAmerican BusinessFamily Farms Author:Mike Pence
“We'll be passing tax relief for small business owners and working families across the country.” CountryTaxesPassingPassingsReliefOwnersSmall BusinessBusiness OwnersSmall Business Owners Author:Mike Pence
“You got to remember, S corporations pay one layer of tax, corporations pay two layers of tax. So we basically see equivalent, but here`s the point. The rest of the world, they tax their businesses at an average rate in the industrialized world of 23 percent. Our corporate is 35. Our top S corporate, small business rate is 44.6 effectively. This is killing us.” WorldTwoRememberPayTaxesPercentKillingRateAverageCorporateCorporationsLayersSmall Business Author:Paul Ryan
“Opening a small business is a reasonable thing for you to do but should tax payer, should an ordinary worker have to pay more money in taxes because someone across the street from them opened up a business which might well go under? For a lot of people opening a business is a bad choice for them. Most small businesses fail. I understand people wanting to give it a try and everything but we're not necessarily doing them a favor to say, take all your life savings, borrow to the hilt, and then struggle for three years and end up with nothing. We're not necessarily doing them a favor.” PeopleGivingTryingChoicesStruggleFailingTaxesSmall BusinessLife Saving Author:Dean Baker
“My tax plan will cut taxes for 95 percent of workers, because we need to put money back into the pockets of struggling middle-class families and close the egregious tax loopholes that have exploded over the last eight years. My plan eliminates capital gains taxes entirely for the small businesses and start-ups that are the backbone of our economy, as opposed to John McCain's plan, which would tax these businesses. John McCain is running to serve out a third Bush term. But the truth is, when it comes to taxes, that's not being fair to George Bush.” RunningTermStruggleEconomyCuttingTruth IsTaxesSmall BusinessBackboneMccain Author:Barack Obama
“We talked about many issues, like welfare, is it the way of life or hand up? Talked about size of government, how much should it tax families and small businesses? And when we left that lunch, we got in the car and I looked over at Chuck and said, "I'll be damned. We're Republicans."” WayShouldSaidHandsGovernmentLeftIssuesCarRepublicanTaxesSizeWelfareLunchSmall BusinessChuckHands UpSize Of Government Author:Susana Martinez
“The bill that job creators and out-of-work Americans need us to pass is the one that ensures taxes won't go up - one that says Americans and small-business owners won't get hit with more bad news at the end of the year.” NeedsYearsEndsJobsTaxesNewsBillsCreatorOwnersSmall BusinessBad NewsBusiness OwnersSmall Business OwnersJob Creators Author:Mitch McConnell
“Obama wants to take the individual small business tax to 44 percent, and the corporate rate - he says - down to 28 percent or whatever. But that really damages the small businesses. And it doesn't make us competitive. You got to take them both down to 20, because state and local corporate taxes are 5 percent.” WantStatesIndividualTaxesPercentRateLocalsCorporateDamageSmall Business Author:Grover Norquist
“Washington has got to, across the board, lower taxes for small businesses so that our mom and pops can reinvest and hire people, so that our businesses can thrive.” PeopleMomTaxesPopsBoardsThriveSmall Business Author:Sarah Palin
“The American people know what's necessary to get this economy moving again. It's fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across-the-board tax relief for working families, small businesses and family farms.” PeopleKnowsMovingEconomyDisciplineTaxesBoardsReliefFarmsSmall BusinessFamily Farms Author:Mike Pence
“You bet every member of Congress who votes for this bill ought to read it, read it thoroughly, and understand that what we're looking at here amounts to nothing more than a government takeover of our health care economy, paid for with nearly a trillion dollars in new taxes on individuals and small businesses. And it must be opposed.” GovernmentCareIndividualEconomyOughtAmountTaxesMembersVotePaidBillsDollarsCongressHealth CareSmall BusinessTakeoversGovernment Takeover Author:Mike Pence
“When you raise taxes on small business, from 35% to 40%, you will kill jobs.” JobsTaxesRaisesSmall Business Author:Mitt Romney
“And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare.” MeanJobsAmericaGrowthHurtCostTaxesChampionEnginesHealthcareRegulationSmall BusinessFifthReducingObamacareReinsJob GrowthRepealing Author:Mitt Romney