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11/19/2010 Straight Talk: Tax Hike Looming, SBA Official Demands 1099 Repeal and More
Straight Talk: Tax Hike Looming, SBA Chief Demands 1099 Repeal and More. Friends: In less than 50 days, American small business owners will be hit with an enormous $3.8 trillion tax hike. According to the National Federation of Independent Bu...
10/29/2010 Straight Talk Special Edition: Fighting the Job-Killing 1099 Requirement
Friends: Every day, I hear from entrepreneurs who are frustrated by the government’s plan to impose more regulations on their businesses. Just last month, the Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy reported that small firms pay nearl...
10/08/2010 Straight Talk Special Edition: September Unemployment Report Brings More Bad News
Friends: Today, the U.S. Department of Labor reported that our economy lost 96,000 jobs in September and the unemployment rate remains stagnant at 9.6 percent. This marks the seventeenth consecutive month that unemployment has been above 9 percen...
10/01/2010 Straight Talk: Congress Skips Town, Forum on Job-Killing EPA regulations and More
Friends: Congress quit on the American people this week. Instead of staying in Washington to make tough decisions about the budget, taxes, and federal funding, Majority Leaders chose to skip town. As a result, Fiscal Year 2010 has ended with...
09/24/2010 Straight Talk: Pledge to America, Costly Small Business Lending Bill and More
The American people are growing increasingly frustrated with the direction that Washington is taking our country. Families are outraged that steps are not being taken to reign in unsustainable spending, record debt, and unprecedented government inte...
09/17/2010 Straight Talk: Fighting the Small Business Tax Hikes, Another Taxpayer Bailout and More
Friends: Small business owners nationwide are becoming increasingly nervous as Majority Leaders in Congress threaten to impose the largest tax increase in history this January. President Obama claims that this massive $3.9 trillion tax increase wi...
09/10/2010 Straight Talk: GOP “Freeze and Cut” Proposal, Rising Health Care Costs and More
Washington, September 10th - Friends: We’ve hearing a lot of rhetoric from Washington lately about the economy and job creation, but very little action. This week, President Obama announced a new “stimulus” plan for the economy that includes ...
08/27/2010 Straight Talk August Update: Preventing a Double-Dip Recession, Examining the White House’s “Recovery Summer” and More
Washington, D.C., August 27th - Dear Friends: According to a recent CBS poll, more than 80 percent of Americans think the economy is in bad shape and 34 percent believe things are going to get even worse. Fears of a “double-dip” recession ar...
07/23/2010 Straight Talk: Where Are the Jobs?, Financial Regulatory Reform, and More
Washington, D.C., July 23rd - Dear Friends: This week, Congress approved legislation to extend unemployment benefits through November. My Republican colleagues and I support unemployment benefits as a safety net for families that fall on hard...
07/16/2010 Straight Talk: Obama Stimulus Spin, Small Business Uncertainty and More
Washington, D.C., July 16th - Dear Friends: Earlier this week, the Obama Administration released a report claiming that the trillion-dollar stimulus has “saved or created” between 2.5 and 3.6 million jobs since it was signed into law in Februa...
  
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