Will Obama Blow It With Small Businesses?
Apr 20th, 2009 | By Dawn Rivers Baker | Category: PodcastsThe song of the angry not-so-young microbusiness owner has been a recurring theme here at the MicroEnterprise Journal/Microbusiness News Briefs for a few weeks now.
There’s a reason for that.
It seems that the more time that goes by, the angrier those microbusiness owners get. It’s not that we don’t understand about all those jobs, etc., etc. It is simply that we don’t agree that such is a good reason to spend all that money saving businesses that, frankly, don’t deserve to be saved.
There were other options for handling the situation.
Congress returns from recess today, which makes me very happy. Already, there is a hearing scheduled on Wednesday that I think will interest you. And besides, if the lawmakers are back in Washington, that simply increases the chances that I’ll find things to complain about.
It’s what I live for.
For more information:
- House Small Business Committee: “IRS Oversight: Are Tax Compliance Costs Slowing the Economic Recovery?” (Hearing Archive)
- Federal Reserve Board: Senior Loan Office Opinion Survey, January 2009
- The Conference Board
- Government Accountability Office:
Small Business Administration’s Implementation of Administrative Provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (PDF)
