Will House Dems Support Growing Small Business Jobs or Big-Government This Week?
| FYI, a similar version of this release below went out to the following districts: Shelley Adler (NJ-03), Pete Aguilar (CA-31), Jason Altmire (PA-12), Jeff Anderson (MN-08), George Badey (PA-07), Ron Barber (AZ-08), John Barrow (GA-12), Ami Bera (CA-07), Tim Bishop (NY-01), Kathy Boockvar (PA-08), Leonard Boswell (IA-03), Bruce Braley (IA-01), Cheri Bustos (IL-17), Lois Capps (CA-24), Ben Chandler (KY-06), Andrei Cherny (AZ-09), David Cicilline (RI-01), Tarryl Clark (MN-08), Gerry Connolly (VA-11), Jim Costa (CA-16), Mark Critz (PA-12), David Crooks (IN-08), John Delaney (MD-06), Val Demings (FL-10), Joanne Dowdell (NH-01), Tammy Duckworth (IL-08), Bill Foster (IL-11), Lois Frankel (FL-22), Pete Gallego (TX-23), John Garamendi (CA-03), Alan Grayson (FL-09), Raul Grijalva (AZ-07), Pam Gulleson (ND-AL), Clark Hall (AR-01), Brad Harriman (IL-12), Jose Hernandez (CA-10), Brian Higgins (NY-26), Jim Himes (CT-04), Ruben Hinojosa (TX-15), Paul Hirschbiel (VA-02), Kathy Hochul (NY-27), Rush Holt (NJ-12), Steven Horsford (NV-04), Q. Byrum Hurst (AR-04), Steve Israel (NY-03), Bill Keating (MA-09), Ann Kirkpatrick (AZ-01), Larry Kissell (NC-08), Pat Kreitlow (WI-07), Ann McLane Kuster (NH-02), Rick Larsen (WA-02), David Loebsack (IA-02), Alan Lowenthal (CA-47), Nita Lowey (NY-17), Dan Maffei (NY-24), Larry Maggi (PA-18), Jim Matheson (UT-04), Carolyn McCarthy (NY-04), Gary McDowell (MI-01), Mike McIntyre (NC-07), Jerry McNerney (CA-09), Michael Michaud (ME-02), Joe Miklosi (CO-06), Brendan Mullen (IN-02), Patrick Murphy (FL-18), Mark Murphy (NY-11), Rick Nolan (MN-08), John Oceguera (NV-03), Bill Owens (NY-21), Sal Pace (CO-03), Frank Pallone (NJ-06), Ed Perlmutter (CO-07), Scott Peters (CA-52), Collin Peterson (MN-07), Chellie Pingree (ME-01), Nick Rahall (WV-03), Ciro Rodriguez (TX-23), Raul Ruiz (CA-36), Lori Saldaña (CA-52), Brad Schneider (IL-10), Brandon Shaffer (CO-04), Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01), Kyrsten Sinema (AZ-09), Louise Slaughter (NY-25), Betty Sutton (OH-16), Mark Takano (CA-41), John Tierney (MA-06), Paul Tonko (NY-20), Manan Trivedi (PA-06), Niki Tsongas (MA-03), Christie Vilsack (IA-04), Bill Vinsko (PA-11), Jamie Wall (WI-08), Tim Walz (MN-01), Charlie Wilson (OH-06), John Yarmuth (KY-03)
Will Peterson Support Growing Small Business Jobs or Big-Government This Week?
Minnesota Democrat’s Party Leaders Already Lining Up to Oppose the 20 Percent Small Business Tax Cut to Protect their Government Spending Spree WASHINGTON — As the economy continues to drag under the burden of Washington Democrat policies, Collin Peterson will have the opportunity to provide relief for struggling small businesses later this week when the House votes on a 20 percent small business tax cut. However, Peterson’s Democrat leaders are already waging war on these efforts to help small businesses, countering with their “Buffett tax” hike which would tax small businesses even higher. Peterson will have a choice to make later this week – will he grow jobs by supporting small businesses or destroy them with even more big-government? “Collin Peterson’s Democrat leaders don’t seem to understand that their record-setting government spending and borrowing spree is actually making the economic recovery worse and leaving future generations to bear the burden,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay. “Peterson can either focus on growing small businesses by providing them tax relief to create jobs or help his party leaders raise taxes to fuel their spending addictions.” Later this week, the House will vote on a 20 percent tax cut for all small businesses with fewer than 500 employees to spur job creation: “Meanwhile, House Republicans are prepping their small-business tax cut vote that will come later this week. The $46 billion, one-year tax cut would apply to all businesses with fewer than 500 employees, and the tax break would benefit 22 million small businesses, according to Cantor’s office.” (Seung Min Kim, “Hill girds for tax-bill battle,” Politico, 4/15/12)
In contrast, Democrats are pushing for more taxes that would burden small businesses, despite the fact that spending is already at record levels: “The U.S. government spent more in March than it had in any prior month on record. The government spent $369.37 billion last month, about $30 billion more than it spent in March 2011. For March alone, the U.S. recorded a budget deficit of $198.16 billion, about $10 billion more than the same month last year, according to the U.S. Treasury Department’s latest budget figures released Wednesday. It was the highest March deficit ever.” (Eric Morath, “March 2012 Outlays Highest Monthly Spending Ever – US Treasury,” Dow Jones Newswires, 4/11/12)
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