If Senator Robert Byrd actually manages to keep his Senate Appropriations Committee on their marks and gets all 12 federal spending bills out of committee by the end of July — and that is his publicly stated goal — I, for one, will be highly impressed.

The Senate never moves that fast to do anything. Well, okay … almost never.

The survey from the National Association for the Self-Employed on microbusinesses is good stuff, as far as it goes. I will say, though, I really wish somebody would conduct research on microbusinesses that would correctly weigh respondents by business size and gross receipts to more accurately reflect the actual population of microbusiness owners.

These results are interesting but, even with more nonemployers in the sample than there were last time, they still only have about half of what they’d need for a proportionte reflection of the U.S. business population. The respondents in this survey also have higher median average sales revenues than is the norm among all microbusiness owners.

I’m sorry but that sort of disparity bothers me. So, shoot me.

For more information:

National Association for the Self-Employed
House Committee on Small Business
House Committee on Appropriations
Senate Committee on Appropriations

[tags]National Association for the Self-Employed, NASE, health insurance, microbusiness, micro-corporation, tax reform, federal budget, SBA[/tags]

 

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