[elpadre]

and for those of your who failed to vote last time or voted so as to teach the errant republicans a lesson - what did you expect from these jokers you put into office????

[Mrs.Z]

My husband and I have a small business.

Europe has subsidies and protections for their businesses.

Congress hasn’t been much help for years (except for the Bush cuts) and now wants to cut us off at the knees.

[txzman]

Rangel knows what he is doing. According to the liberal minority inner city voting block, anyone who can afford to own a small business MUST be rich.

[Chode]

Atlas PUKED!!!

[sergeantdave]

This shouldn’t surprise anyone. Our communist governor and RINO legislature hit small businesses with numerous “fees” and taxes, including new taxes on various services. Naturally, lawyers are not included in the new service taxes.

Anyway, small businesses are fleeing this socialist paradise as are productive citizens. The tax demands of the welfare leeches, crooked state bureaucrats, legions of government workers, including teachers, and the army of state worker retirees will soon oustrip the paying ability of business and productive citizens.

All that will be left is to strip state assets to pay the ever increasing bill.

Michigan will soon resemble 1980s Albania, including thousands of refugees fleeing economic and individual liberty strangulation.

Moral of the story: Never, ever elect a woman to a political office just because she’s a woman.

[dorothy]

From his House website: "Congressman Rangel is a graduate of New York University and St. John's University School of Law. He has spent his entire career in public service..."

Enough said.

[nyyankeefan]

The Mother of All Tax Hikes on Small Businesses...

the lib/dems just doing what they do best....destroy US enterprise/entrepeneurship/economic expansion!!!!

but they support the troops...so they say...well at least those that are the enemies of the US!!!

[Mr. Jeeves]

Small businesses are the engine of job creation in the economy.

But Democrats hate them because it's much harder to coopt small business as "Partners in the Search for Socialist Solutions" than it is to entice the General Electrics and 3M's into using their HR departments as arms of the Federal Government. If Democrats had their way, everyone would be a union member working for a Big Business - that guarantees that all the campaign cash flows in the right direction. ;)