Small Businesses Across the Country Say, 'We're Not Hiring'

[mandym]

By Adam Housley

Published August 05, 2011

| FoxNews.com

At a wholesale pizza factory just outside Los Angeles, Calif., 25 men and women pound out the dough.

But like many small businesses in America dealing with a struggling economy, the owners aren't necessarily rolling in it.

"I love what I do, I love my employees. I have people that have been here over 20 years working for me. I don't want to do anything else, but it's frightening out there," says Patty Phillips, the owner of Patty's Pizza in Marina Del Rey. "My bottom line hasn't changed in two years, but my cost of business has changed significantly."

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/08/0...usinesses-across-country-say-were-not-hiring/

 

[carpro]

There will be no economic recovery until Obama is fired.

Period

 

[billwald]

There will be no economic recovery. We are now an economic 3rd world nation. Sort of like a Cuba with the H-bomb and missiles.

You all still say that small businesses generate most new jobs and thus deserve special tax breaks for billionaires?

 

[mandym]

There will be no economic recovery. We are now an economic 3rd world nation. Sort of like a Cuba with the H-bomb and missiles.

You all still say that small businesses generate most new jobs and thus deserve special tax breaks for billionaires?

Why do billionaires need to be taxed any heavier than anyone else?

 

[targus]

You all still say that small businesses generate most new jobs and thus deserve special tax breaks for billionaires?

How did you make this jump from "small businesses" to "billionaires" in a single sentence?

 

[billwald]

>Why do billionaires need to be taxed any heavier than anyone else?

Because the jump from $200K to $2 million to $20 million . . . is not a linear function.

>How did you make this jump from "small businesses" to "billionaires" in a single sentence?

Because people on this list think that billionaires "deserve" to pay the same tax rate as small business owners, not understanding that billionaires pay a much lower tax rate than small business owners.

 

[mandym]

>Why do billionaires need to be taxed any heavier than anyone else?

Because the jump from $200K to $2 million to $20 million . . . is not a linear function.

And?

>How did you make this jump from "small businesses" to "billionaires" in a single sentence?

Because people on this list think that billionaires "deserve" to pay the same tax rate as small business owners, not understanding that billionaires pay a much lower tax rate than small business owners.

Source please

 

[targus]

>How did you make this jump from "small businesses" to "billionaires" in a single sentence?<

Because people on this list think that billionaires "deserve" to pay the same tax rate as small business owners, not understanding that billionaires pay a much lower tax rate than small business owners.

Nice spin, bub.

But that's not what you said.

Your statement implied that small businesses owners are billionaires.

How would "small businesses generate most new jobs and thus deserve special tax breaks for billionaires" make any sense if your meaning was not that small business owners are billionaires?

 

[billwald]

http://www.farmcpatoday.com/2011/02/08/capital-gains-tax-rates-for-2011/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_gains_tax_in_the_United_States

Only day traders and other "flippers" would have short term capital gains. Median income pays a 25% marginal tax rate while the the guy who has a million in capital gains pays 15%. Muni bonds and such are tax exempt.

>Your statement implied that small businesses owners are billionaires.

No, read it again. Says nothing about small business owners being billionaires.

 

[targus]

>Your statement implied that small businesses owners are billionaires.<

No, read it again. Says nothing about small business owners being billionaires.

I think that perhaps you are the one that needs to read it again.

"You all still say that small businesses generate most new jobs and thus deserve special tax breaks for billionaires?"

Unless you are saying that small business owners are billionaires, what possible sense does it mean to use the word "thus".

How exactly does a non-billioniare business owner "thus deserve special tax breaks for billionaires"?

 

[Robert Snow]

I think that perhaps you are the one that needs to read it again.

"You all still say that small businesses generate most new jobs and thus deserve special tax breaks for billionaires?"

Unless you are saying that small business owners are billionaires, what possible sense does it mean to use the word "thus".

How exactly does a non-billioniare business owner "thus deserve special tax breaks for billionaires"?

Bill didn't mean what you are trying to make his statement say. He said as much. Perhaps he could have worded his statement better, but he made it clear that you are mistaken. Give it a rest!

 

[mandym]

Bill didn't mean what you are trying to make his statement say. He said as much. Perhaps he could have worded his statement better, but he made it clear that you are mistaken. Give it a rest!

I agree//////