Small Biz Owners Say Job Exports, Not Regs Problem
Republicans who claim they are BFF with small business owners–yet insist ”over regulation” is causing the nation’s economic woes–ought to listen to what their “best friends” have to say.
A new poll of 500 small business owners finds that cutting regulations is far down their list of priorities to boost their businesses. They say weak customer demand—not government regulations—is their biggest concern and that the best way to create jobs is to eliminate incentives to move jobs overseas.
The boogieman of regulations is fifth on the list after ending job export incentives, boosting consumer demand, increasing consumer purchasing, and investing in infrastructure like roads and bridges. Read the rest of this entry »
Small Biz Owners Say Health Care Reform Helps Cover Workers
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Here’s something that certainly isn’t going to be highlighted when Republicans begin their let-no-facts-get-in-the-way show trial of health care reform. Small business owners say the Affordable Care Act will spur them to provide health insurance for their workers.
Yet, while House Republicans stage their health care reform repeal vote Kabuki dance this week and next, the same small business owners Republicans claim to represent are looking at health care reform as a way to cut their health care costs.
A poll of small business owners with 50 or fewer workers by the Small Business Majority finds that two key provisions of the health care reform law—small business tax credits and insurance exchanges—make them more likely to provide health insurance to their employees. The Small Business Majority is a national nonprofit small business advocacy organization.
Small Biz Group Says Health Care Reform Could Save Them $855 Billion
Health care reform that requires employers to provide health care coverage for workers or pay into a fund—known as pay or play—could save small businesses as much as $855 billion during the next few years.
A new study by the Small Business Majority disproves claims by health care reform opponents that requiring businesses to provide coverage to their workers would destroy their bottom line.
The Economic Impact of Health Care reform on Small Business, written by Massachusetts Institute of Technology economics professor Jonathan Gruber, says that small businesses, more than any other sector of the economy, “suffer from our broken health care system.”
From spiraling premiums to inadequate access to health care for themselves and their employees, small business owners have seen their prospects for growth diminished and their profits slashed by today’s patchwork of inefficient health care options.
