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- Huffington Post: TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads
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
Resources
National Opinion Poll: Small Business Owners' Views on Taxes and How to Level the Playing Field with Big Business
Small business owners see corporate tax loopholes and accounting gimmicks used to shift U.S. profits offshore to avoid taxes as serious problems, according to an independent nationwide opinion poll. Small business owners think big corporations and the wealthy don’t pay their fair share of taxes, the poll shows. They support increasing taxes on millionaire incomes, letting high-end tax cuts expire, and closing the carried interest loophole that gives big tax breaks to hedge fund managers.
Co-Signed Letter on Corporate Tax Reform to Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction
Excerpt: We are writing to urge members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction to address in their recommendations to Congress serious inequities created by the U.S. corporate income tax code. Many profitable Fortune 500 companies pay no federal income tax at all – yet some members of Congress are pushing for further cuts to corporate income taxes.
October 26, 2011
The Honorable Jeb Hensarling, Co-Chair Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction
The Honorable Patty Murray, Co-Chair Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction
Tax Haven Abuse Resources
Small Businesses Say Don’t Reward Job Destroyers With Another Tax Holiday
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Repatriation Tax Holiday Would Increase Deficits and Push Investment Overseas
Letter to Congress: No "Repatriation" Tax Holiday for U.S. Multinationals
June 14, 2011
Dear Senators and Representatives,
As business organizations with small business members throughout the United States, we call upon Congress to reject pleas by U.S. multinational corporations for short and long-term tax holidays on profits held offshore, and to instead close the tax loopholes that reward companies for transferring U.S. profits, jobs and investment abroad.
Minimum Wage
Please visit our website Business for a Fair Minimum Wage
Bill Moyers Journal with Holly Sklar, Are We Living the American Dream in Reverse? PBS, 6/13/08