Feb 3, 2021
Federal policies have been hitting small businesses particularly hard. From the lockdown to heightened IRS scrutiny to an increased minimum wage to an expanded estate tax, many federal policies harm small businesses more than corporations and so jeopardizes the livelihoods of almost half of American workers.
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Quick Hits
Chick-fil-A
https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/south-carolina-chick-fil-a-manager-covid-19-vaccine-drive-thru
Dodger Stadium
https://news.yahoo.com/dodger-stadiums-covid-19-vaccination-233339650.html
Foolishness of the Week
Impeachment 1
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/30/us/politics/trump-butch-bowers-impeachment.html
Impeachment 2
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/30/politics/butch-bowers-deborah-barbier-trump-impeachment-team/index.html
Topic of the Week
The War on Small
Businesses
https://insidesources.com/the-war-on-small-business/
Minimum Wage Costs 1.3 Million
Jobs
https://reason.com/2019/07/08/cbo-says-15-federal-minimum-wage-will-cost-1-3-million-jobs/
List of Minimum Wage
Peer-Reviewed Research
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fbSTGYQP5ObsEMjgbDWB2W8pgz64XZS5/view?usp=sharing
The Economics of the Estate Tax
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SrMWCAq-HfJdRGBjjQ7kr-KMTGlJjKvX/view?usp=sharing
Survey of Businesses Owners on
the Effect of the Estate Tax
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1111/j.1741-6248.1996.00303.x
Union Contracts Tied to
Minimum Wage
https://www.forbes.com/sites/edrensi/2017/01/19/why-it-is-that-unions-fund-the-fight-for-15/
States to Tax Stimulus Loan Forgiveness
https://advocacy.sba.gov/2020/11/03/some-states-may-tax-forgiven-ppp-loan-proceeds/
IRS Targeting Small Businesses
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