[Typical_Whitey]

I am tired of defending the business owners. It is way past time that the buiness owners started a national campaign against increased taxes, Obamacare and other government regulations that are stifiling their growth. The left will never allow a common sense argument to stand on its own. The left uses communist economists like Krugman and claim that they are moderate mainstream economists who claim that businesses can afford higher taxes even to the tune of say 90 percent or so. People must be taught and the best way to teach them is from the horses mouth the business owners need to impress upon the middle class that guess what those tax increases are passed on to you in the form of higher costs for goods and services and that regulations and taxes result in less employees and less hours worked.

[CutePuppy]

I am tired of defending the business owners. It is way past time that the buiness owners started a national campaign against increased taxes, Obamacare and other government regulations that are stifiling their growth.

There are businesses and there are "businesses," there are conservatives and there are "conservatives," there are Republicans and there are "Republicans"...

e.g., from Republicans Stabbed by Business Roundtable - B, by Jim McTague, 2012 December 15

< snip > ..... The Mordred, or betrayer, is one of the GOP's own sons, former three-term Michigan Governor John Engler, who presides over the über-powerful Business Roundtable, a lobbying organization bankrolled by the nation's corporate giants. This is a delicious tale of intrigue and double crosses that demonstrates how Obama has outwitted the Republican leadership. As Boehner and McConnell have been parrying his skilled thrusts, their supposed allies at the Business Roundtable have critically wounded them from behind. The motive: self-interest. Obama offered to lower corporate-tax rates if the BRT supported his plan for personal income-tax hikes on the wealthy. This development demonstrates the wisdom of the classic quip: If you want a friend in Washington, D.C., get a dog. ..... < snip >

..... Higher rates, the GOP asserts, would slow the economy. The Business Roundtable was a rock-solid endorser of this view until Dec. 5, when it invited the president to address about 100 of its members to make his case for increasing Uncle Sam's paycheck take. The press was booted from the assembly hall when it came time for the CEOs to ask questions of the president. Apparently, he said something they liked. The following week, they endorsed his call for higher personal income taxes on those making $250,000 or more a year.

The Business Roundtable, I deduce, had made up its mind before Obama stepped onto its stage. The very act of inviting him to give a televised speech without public rebuttal symbolically told the world that the organization had jumped ship. ..... < snip >

..... I also surmise that the Republicans remain mum because Big Money controls politics. Rare is the bird who can run for office without corporate sponsorship. ..... < snip >

..... Engler's tax-cutting made him a GOP superstar. So, his turning turncoat must have been especially galling to Boehner, McConnell, and many other Republicans. ..... < snip >

How do you like them apples?

BTW, for the record, it's a well established fact that dogs are man's best friends, and not just in D.C.