How is the Economic Stimulus Plan Viewed by Small Businesses?
Let’s face it, the small business owner is under a lot of pressure with the weak economy. Even in the best of times they have a harder time getting credit and now, that has nearly completely evaporated. Small business owners struggle to get by.
Now with over 1,100 pages, it seems like nearly no one (and that includes your congressmen and senators) has actually read the bill. But with President Obama addressing Congress last week there were no specific provisions mentioned there designed to really help the small business owner. For example, while Obama seems to have little regard for tax cuts, actually implementing tax cuts for small businesses would enable many to hang on during these difficult times. And by hanging on, more jobs are retained in the economy.
In a recent poll conducted by Merchant Circle over 10,000 respondents when asked about whether they approve of the stimulus bill overwhelmingly voted NO. Not a surprise really to those of us in the trenches with them. Too bad we are, once again, ingnored by our elected officials.