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5/6/12 - Omaha World Herald: Some shareholders hope Buffett gets off his soapbox - Others don't
5/3/12 - CBS MoneyWatch: Why the 'Buffett Rule' Lives
4/17/12 - The Hill: Lew Prince, Buffett Rule Makes Main Street sense
4/17/12 - Minimum wage news at our BUSINESS FOR A FAIR MINIMUM WAGE website
4/17/12 - Alaska Business Monthly: Business Leaders Encourage Senate to Try Again to Pass Buffet Rule
4/17/12 - CNN Money: Buffett Rule would only hit 1% of small business owners
4/16/12 - Entrepreneur: What the 'Buffett Rule' Means to Small-Business Owners: Not Much
4/16/12 - National Journal: Some Businesses, Millionaires Calling for Buffett Rule
4/13/12 - The Hill: Groups, Van Hollen, urge Congress to scrap Cantor tax bill
4/12/12 - Huffington Post: Tax Havens Report: Small Businesses Pay The Price For Big Corporations
4/12/12 - Marketplace Radio: Small business owners on the Buffett Rule
4/11/12 - UPI: Small business groups back Buffett Rule
4/10/12 - CNBC: Just Like Old Times: Obama, Bush Talk Taxes
4/10/12 - Baltimore Sun: Scott Klinger, The Rotten Apple in the Tax Barrel
4/9/12 - Washington Post: Joseph Rotella, Let’s end tax cuts and get corporations to pay their fair share
3/30/12 - CBS News: Small business owners mixed over health care law
3/29/12 - Inside Business: Scott Klinger, Corporations pay less than Buffett and Romney
3/16/12 - Small Business Opportunities: Small Biz Owners Say Big Biz Not Paying Fair Tax Share
3/12/12 - St. Louis Business Journal: Prince spins on small business lending options
3/2/12
Huffington Post: Small Businesses Believe Wealthy And Big Corporations Not Paying Their Fair Share Of Taxes
By Janean Chun
Huffington Post, Feb 6, 2012
Small-business owners don't think big corporations and the wealthy are paying their fair share of taxes, with nine out of 10 small-business owners saying that big corporations use loopholes to avoid the taxes small businesses have to pay, according to a nationwide survey released Monday by the American Sustainable Business Council, Main Street Alliance and Small Business Majority. Ninety-two percent of the small-business owners say corporations using tax loopholes, such as moving U.S. profits to offshore subsidiaries, is a problem, while three out of four say their small business is harmed when big corporations use loopholes to avoid paying taxes.
Sixty-seven percent of small-business owners believe big corporations pay less than their fair share of taxes, while 73 percent believe multinational corporations pay less than their fair share.
"I've been in business 32 years, and I'm appalled at how big corporations and millionaires have shrunk their taxes," Lew Prince, managing partner of Vintage Vinyl, an independent music store in St. Louis, Mo., said in a release from American Sustainable Business Council, Main Street Alliance and Small Business Majority. "Ingrates like Amazon wouldn't even exist without the Internet, which grew out of government research. The least that big corporations and their executives could do is pay their fair share for the roads, ports, education, research, public safety and everything else that tax dollars buy."
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