Small business owners want to pay their fair share; tax breaks do not figure into their decisions whether to hire new employees.
GOP Objects To ‘Millionaires Surtax’; Millionaires We Found? Not So Much
We wanted to talk to business owners who would be affected. So, NPR requested help from numerous Republican congressional offices, including House and Senate leadership. They were unable to produce a single millionaire job creator for us to interview.
So we went to the business groups that have been lobbying against the surtax. Again, three days after putting in a request, none of them was able to find someone for us to talk to. A group called the Tax Relief Coalition said the problem was finding someone willing to talk about their personal taxes on national radio.
So next we put a query on Facebook. And several business owners who said they would be affected by the “millionaires surtax” responded.
This story is one of those stories you wish you could send to your conservative family members, but don’t because they’d just dismiss it as more NPR liberal propaganda.
Funny how this millionaire surtax will hurt the economy, but the payroll tax increasing is only good to the eyes of the GOP.
