Question by Jordan: How can liberals support high taxes AND small business?
Seriously, how the hell is this possible?
@Que Sera Sera: Well that’s great because I support small business. I just don’t understand how high taxes and small business can go hand and hand.
Nirva: Where in my question did I mention Bush. Don’t bring up the strawman argument.
John r: I won’t read whatever garbage you may have spewed until you change “u” to “you”.
“Do you even know what a strawman argument is?” Indeed.
Best answer:
Answer by Jack
Hell this time around….they’re spending 100′s of billions on non-existant new roads.
Give your answer to this question below!
You get taxed and you get tax credits. It balances out.
How can conservatives support low taxes on big businesses?
Small business is local business and local business means it’s in the United States…supporting the United States economy is a G.O.O.D thing. High taxes? Or, just adequate taxes? We need adequate taxes to maintain roads, sewers, fire departments, schools, law enforcement, …….
i don’t want high taxes for small buisness
What “high taxes ” you are talking about ? So far I did not see any increase from Dumbya’s “super low ” taxes …LOL…
Because they believe that the Govt. is the answer to everything, and to run it, they want more and more money…Which happens to be OURS!!! And they don’t support small business, because if they did, they wouldn’t be raising taxes on those who are the JOB PRODUCERS!!!!
What high taxes do liberals support? You mean the tax cut for 95% of all Americans included in Obama’s budget? You mean the $ 330 billion in tax cuts and credits mostly for businesses included in the stimulus package? Do you mean the tax credits for small businesses that hire new employees? Why no reference to the high taxes allegedly being supported? Perhaps because your question is based on a falsehood?
Why don’t you do a little reading about all the tax cuts the Administration has enacted in a little over a year and stop buying the BS your favorite blowhard feeds you? Just askin’.
In liberal la la land everything is possible.
But seriously, lobbyst firms also qualify as small businesses.
they don’t
They have the desire to do “good” but lack the understanding of the relationship between higher taxes and small business, and the results that one action has on the other.
what u know about economics and tax policy could fit into the reservoir tip of a condom.
warren buffet has endorsed obama’s $ 787B stimulus bill and obama’s tax policy.
u could not attain Obama’s knowledge and Geithner’s knowledge of economics….if u lived to the age of 500.
what would u suggest Obama do to spark the economy ?…more of the failed GWB economic policies (tax cuts for rich and no govt regulation) that lead to the economic recession ?
And where exactly did you get this notion that liberals support either of those things? The last two Democrat Presidents have not raised taxes and they both realized that small businesses are actually the most important factor in this nations economy. So how you can make that statement with a straight face is beyond me. Maybe a bit to much right wing shock radio for you?
Nobody supports “high taxes”. The government must collect in taxes what it spends or the result is a budget deficit. A better question might be:
Why do Republicans complain simultaneously about high taxes and high deficits? Their deficit funded tax cuts are part of what got the deficit to where it is.
Because they are not thinking in the long run. They say “here and now,” rather than realizing that their ideas are destroying America.
The high taxes are for the rich and the corporations, small business owners are seldomly rich. By rich I mean having $ 1M or more in liquid assets.
You’re right. How can they actually think that increasing taxes will help the economy? Think logically: higher taxes will not increase spending. If I wasn’t taxed less, that would be more money for me to spend, thus helping the economy. But when taxes are increased, in order to fund these stupid recycling programs, I won’t have as much money to spend.
They don’t. to them a small business is a government subsidized small business and you are guaranteed work if you happen to meet the minority criteria.
High taxes only apply to big businesses. Small businesses get tax credits and other government support. What’s not to understand?
they cant even pay their own taxes liberals i mean and if you say you own a small Business and want higher taxes your a liar or a big dumbazz
I’m pretty sure most of the people answering your question have never owned a small business, and have never had their savings wiped out by the IRS.
After having both happen to me and having to swallow my pride and take a retail job (which I’ve been able to leave, and which felt like a vacation with no real responsibilities after running my business), I can tell you it is not possible.
When you are a small business, you run afoul of all the tax rules aimed at “corporations” (everyone reads that word as “McDonalds and Wal-Mart”) as well as all the tax rules aimed at individuals.
The tax system is designed around 9-to-5 jobs, where some of your money dissappears before you see it, and stepping out of that model costs you. A LOT.
The credits do not balance out. My office equipment and home office credits added up to less than $ 500, and I still paid nearly $ 7,000 dollars in to the IRS before my business went under and I took a job at a grocery store so I could pay rent and eat ramen again. It would have been nearly $ 11,000 if I didn’t have a dependent. That’s not “balancing out”.
You can’t run a business or do anything independently that takes time and works around other people’s schedules when you’re working a 9-to-5er. High taxes force us to do just that. In 2014, mandatory health insurance is going to force all of us out of the “be your own boss” path as well.
Liberals Don’t Support Small Business.
Liberals Don’t Support ANY Businesses.
Liberals don’t need Jobs. They are parasites that live off us Working People.
How is it Conservatives look the other way on the Bush Tax cuts when there is no way to pay them back and never has been.. meanwhile Senator Coburn just allowed Unemployment and Health Benefits to run out for 100′s of thousands of people because it’s unclear where the money to pay for it will come from ?
How about we put the tax rate back to 90% like pre Regan and let the IRS decide what to do with the sudden surplus ?
Simple answer is they don’t. Obama wants to give tax breaks to support small business.
Do you even know what a strawman argument is? It’s when you take a position on some issue and ascribe it to some group of people who you are trying to demonize. As in, “How can liberals support high taxes AND small business?”
What high taxes? With a business all sorts of deductions and credits are available. Just like the 35% corporate tax that no company ever pays. A look at any SEC report will tell you that. It’s listed right there what the taxes and sales are. Take a look.
Now how the hell can conservatives support a 2010 TRILLION military budget, an existing pre Obama deficit, a sinking dollar and an ever growing debt to China and Japan? Paid with dollars worth less every day? And still want a tax cut?
That deficit is not going away. No matter what the Republicans say. Look at California. A result of Republican policy. That’s our future. No matter who gets elected. The state needs money. Period.
Nothing is free but that in essence is what Sarah Palin is preaching.
I’d love to know the answer to that, but there truly isn’t one. At least not one that would be legitimate. Fact is, small businesses can’t grow under more burdensome taxation. Most liberals are incapable of seeing this, though.
Additionally, their way to solve this problem would be suggesting that prices are raised, which of course would happen, and next they’ll scream that families can’t live on minimum wage because of the increased prices. So here we are in a catch-22 because as soon as minimum wage goes up again, so do the prices of production and product.
Last but not least, your average progressive will claim that all businesses and their owners are selfish racists who care more for the dollar than anything else. Most of these people have never owned nor started a business, of course.
It’s not that we support high taxes. We are changing the health care system and the money has to come from somewhere. It’s not that bad though, when done the savings in waste will lower medical costs/insurance offsetting and possibly eliminating the need for taxes from the average Joe. Companies already receive tax incentives to hire people and for their insurance. We have to do this, it’s already been shown that the insurers will keep upping the cost of insurance at a rate that our taxes will never see. And because there is no public option the cash required won’t be a lot now. we should ready ourselves for the option down the road, that is what will really bring insurance costs down. I know you’re thinking it will provide inferior health care but it really shouldn’t, the hospitals will require re-investment of 85% of it’s profits. It’s complicated but what else can we do? Continue to watch people go bankrupt over medical procedures?
True, they support small businesses, such as the Good Intentions Paving Company…
It is not, but they always claim that you cannot find it in a speech, therefore, they actually never said that (sarcasm).
High taxes = less spendable income = destruction of the small businessman!! But, Liberals do not believe it!!
Like Paula Abdul sang…… ‘You take….two steps forward, and two steps back…. ‘ The Liberal mentality is to corner the private sector into chaos, and to increase the non-producing private sector….
It is quite possible.
Many liberally-minded people I know own or run small businesses.
I, for one, am a business owner with more moderate views.
The idea of supporting high taxes is a fallacy. Nobody wants higher taxes for the sake of higher taxes.
They support programs that benefit their communities.
And, in doing so, they accept the responsibility of paying taxes for those benefits.
Conversely, they also look at large, perceptibly abusive companies and advocate higher taxes and greater restrictions for those types of businesses and/or business owners.
You know what I’m talking about here… Habitual polluters, companies that have exploited those less fortunate, etc.
Many of those large-industry businesses have benefitted from government aid and subsidies as well. And, that aid was paid for with (you guessed it!) taxes.
So, really, this issue gets smeared up with whatever propaganda tends to agree with your view of the world.