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HIT Stands In Way Of Small Business Job Growth
This summer, millions of Americans will hit the road and take vacations at one of the more than 50,000 hotel and lodging properties we represent. Many of these establishments actually have 50 or fewer rooms, qualifying them as small businesses…. Read More
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Down A Long Road: Small Business Taking A HIT
LITTLE ROCK – The road back from the recession has been a long and painful one for small businesses. One of the chief reasons it has been so difficult has been the staggering amount of taxes small businesses are now… Read More
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Small business owners worry insurance tax will raise costs
New Orleans-area small business owners say a tax assessed on insurance companies as part of the federal health care law will end up punishing them instead, possibly forcing them to trim employee benefits. They want to repeal that part of… Read More
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Bipartisan bill would repeal health insurance tax
Reps. Charles Boustany Jr. (R-La.) and Jim Matheson (D-Utah) reintroduced a bill Friday to repeal the health insurance tax in President Obama’s healthcare law. The health insurance tax is set to raise about $100 billion over 10 years to help… Read More
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Tax hikes you may have forgotten about
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has a lot to do with tax policy, and the new taxes it created are starting to add up. A 2.3 percent medical device excise tax will raise $1.7 billion in revenues this year, while… Read More
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High cost of health reform
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is characterized as a health care reform bill. We will see what effect it has on the affordability of health care once fully enacted, but our bet is that claims of improved affordability… Read More
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Gallup: Small business owners more pessimistic following presidential election
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Findings implicate that small business owners will hold back hiring in 2013 WASHINGTON, D.C. (November 30, 2012) – Small business owners’ optimism has fallen to July 2010 standards, according to the latest Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index…. Read More
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House Majority Now Supports Bill To Repeal ACA Health Insurance Tax
Legislation (H.R. 763) that would repeal the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance tax has garnered enough supporters to clear the House, backers of the measure said. A spokeswoman for Rep. Jim Matheson (D-Utah) told BNA June 17 the Jobs and… Read More
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Small Businesses to Obama: Blame PPACA for Premium Increases, not Us
WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 7, 2013) – The Stop the HIT Coalition, a broad-based group representing the country’s small business owners, their employees and the self-employed, released the following statement in response to President Barack Obama’s assertion today that employers were… Read More
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Ryan joins ‘Obamacare’ bashing but stays mum on his own plans – What he didn’t say – Huckabee defends Catholics – Personhood measure doesn’t make Colorado ballot – ‘Stop the HIT’ in Tampa
Tampa, Fla. – RYAN LAYS INTO ‘OBAMACARE’ BUT STAYS MUM ON HIS OWN PLANS –Paul Ryan warned that President Barack Obama’s health law was the greatest threat to the Medicare program, but mentioned next to nothing of his own ambitious… Read More