Small Business Owner Wants Her Shop Out of Obama Ad

Deli Owner to Obama: Take My Storefront Out of Your Ad

by jprendergast

The owner of a specialty deli at Findlay Market wants her store’s name removed from an ad President Obama used to explain his record on small business.

Ten seconds into the ad “Always,” an employee is shown from behind, pushing up the security door of Krause’s while Obama talks about owners sacrificing to make their businesses run. The owner of the store, Debra Krause-McDonnell, said she did not give permission for her business to be shown and that some customers have told her they’ll no longer shop there. She says she’s “contemplating legal action.”

see video:

http://nation.foxnews.com/obama-ad/2012/08/08/small-business-owner-threatens-sue-obama-over-campaign-ad

Chuck Woolery on Taxing the Rich

New Ad Uses Obama’s Words Raising Taxes in 2013

What is the “Dumbest Thing That Harry Reid Has Ever said”?

Today’s humor (Sad)!

http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/01/25/what-is-the-dumbest-thing-harry-reid-has-ever-said/#

Paul Ryan: Its “YOUR” Money

Tax Your Kid’s Halloween Candy

Tax Your Kid’s Candy This Halloween
X / XXIX / MMX | pansgold

Posted on Friday, October 29, 2010 1:30:03 PM by pansgold

This Halloween when each kid comes home with a sack full of candy, set them down and tell them it’s time to pay their taxes.

Grab as much of their candy as you want and tell them it’s a graduated tax and is proportionate to the amount they have.

Tell them that you will be giving it to the kids that were too lazy to beat the streets for themselves and they stayed home and sat on their asses.

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2617169/posts

Chris Coons: The TaxMan

AFP Supporters, Koch Industries, Questions WH Comments about their Taxes

from the Weekly Standard:

While the attention is unwanted for the Kochs, if somewhat expected, a lawyer for Koch Industries now tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD that the administration may have crossed a line by revealing tax information about Koch Industries. According to Mark Holden, senior vice president and general counsel of Koch Industries, a senior Obama administration official told reporters at an August 27 on-the-record background briefing on corporate taxes:

So in this country we have partnerships, we have S corps, we have LLCs, we have a series of entities that do not pay corporate income tax. Some of which are really giant firms, you know Koch Industries is a multibillion dollar businesses. So that creates a narrower base because we’ve literally got something like 50 percent of the business income in the U.S. is going to businesses that don’t pay any corporate income tax. They point out [in the report] you could review the boundary between corporate and non-corporate taxation as a way to broaden the base.

Holden tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD that this quotation from a senior administration official “came to our attention from different avenues.  We are very concerned about why this would be said about us, particularly in this setting.  We are concerned where this information would have been obtained from. We also are concerned in light of recent events that we have been singled out by the government and others as a campaign against us because of our political views.”

for full article: http://weeklystandard.com/blogs/koch-industries-lawyer-white-house-how-did-you-get-our-tax-information-1

Federal Employees owe more than ONE BILLION in back taxes!

From the LA Times:

Over the years a lot of suspicion has built up across the country about Washington and its population of opportunistic transients coming to see themselves as a special kind of person, somehow above average working Americans who don’t labor down in that monument-strewn former swamp.

Well, finally, an end to all those undocumented doubts. Thanks to some diligent digging by the Washington Post, those suspicions can at last be put to rest.

They’re correct. Accurate. Dead-on. Laser-guided. On target. Bingo-bango. As clear as it’s always seemed to those Americans who don’t feel special entitlements and do meet their government obligations.

We now know that federal employees across the nation owe fully $1 billion in back taxes to the Internal Revenue Service.

As in, 1,000 times one million dollars. All this political jabber about giving middle-class …

… Americans a tax cut. Thousands of feds have been giving themselves one all along — unofficially. And these tax scofflaws include more than three dozen folks who work for the president with that newly decorated Oval Office.

The Post’s T.W. Farnum did some research and found that out of the total sum, just 638 workers on Capitol Hill owe the IRS $9.3 million in back taxes. As in, overdue. The IRS gets stiffed by the legislative body that controls its budget. How Washington works.

for the full story: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/09/congress-taxes-irs.html

From Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), if you are a federal employee, thus on the federal payroll, you should not be delinquent on your taxes.

White House Job Summit

     White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says that today’s Job Summit is not about jobs, per se.

     Today’s “Job Summit” is not for the private sector to discuss with the White House how the government is an overbearing intrusion into the growth of small businesses, the backbone of the job market.

     Where are the small business owners’ invitation to the Job Summit? Where is the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB)? The United States Chamber of Commerce? The Chamber and NFIB do not have a seat at the “table” because they do not support the healthcare reform legislation.

     How does one get true discourse going when the opposing view is silenced? If the White House does not want to hear all ideas, do not try to make it appear as though this summit is for the small businesses or to create jobs.

     Running a small business is no easy task, and many become disillusioned when more and more time is spent in non-productive activities, and dealing with the vast growing number of tax channels. While the government makes it appear to middle class America that it is lowering property taxes and other taxes, they are at the same time making up the difference on the taxes on the businesses.

      Here is just a snippet of a list of taxes that a small businesses must address:

                                    Federal Unemployment Tax                                      State Unemployment taxes

                                    Federal Corporate Income Tax                                State Corporate Income Tax

                                    State Intangible Tax                                                      Commercial Personal Property Tangible Tax

                                   Commercial Real Property tax                                  FICA Tax

                                    Medicare Tax                                                                    Hazardous Material License

                                    County Occupational License (now called “Business Tax”)

                                    City Occupational License

                Now, let’s add in the proposed cap and trade taxes, and the increased costs of healthcare, either in premiums or fines for not providing the coverage to the employees. It does not take rocket scientists to realize that while the taxes may not increase on individuals, their taxes will be increasing in the form of higher costs, because the small businesses pass the increased costs on to the consumers.

               The method to increase jobs, to get the recovery actually rolling, is to stop the cap and trade issues, to put the massive takeover of healthcare on hold, and to give massive tax breaks to the small businesses to eliminate the uncertainty that is presently stifling the growth of small businesses. This is the conversations that should be going on at a job summit, not the political posturing that Obama is doing as the 2010 election cycle begins!