Small business. I don't know about you, but when I think about small business a few particular places come to mind. Down the hill from my high school there is a small family owned deli that after school I would walk down there with friends and have a sandwich before walking back for play practice or whatever FFA practice I was there for that day. I think about The Zombean, a zombie themed coffee house in Liberty, NY that is owned and operated by two very good friends of mine. I think about the little corner stores that littered my main street in the small town I grew up in. However, today I found out that when politicians talk of small businesses, they are not talking about what would be commonly considered 'small'. Filing as a small business, as far as taxes go, is based on how many OWNERS you have for a company. This flies in the face of what I think when I hear small business. It isn't based on the number of locations, employees or net profit. It's as painful as it is hilarious to me because...I feel for it.
How could I have guessed that 'small' didn't mean SMALL?! I feel as insulted as I do foolish for believing what it means. I know small business owners and even though I could smell the bullshit and I still think the bush tax cuts should go I honestly thought that certain family owned businesses could benefit from the low taxes. Not businesses that are making millions of dollars, but money to make The Zombean a financially strong shop. That that little deli would be able to keep a little money to maybe pave a small parking lot even. They could use another local small business to do that and everyone would be better off. But this play on words is damaging to the average American because there is no way we could know something like this and that is what they are counting on!
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