Small businesses less concerned with taxes than with the shitty economy

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

What’s Holding Back Small Businesses?
By CATHERINE RAMPELL

The biggest single problem facing America’s small businesses isn’t taxes or overregulation. It’s low demand, according to a new report released by the National Federation of Independent Business.

Thirty-one percent of small businesses surveyed by the N.F.I.B. said that “poor sales” are their company’s “single most important problem.” The other options included were competition from large businesses, insurance costs and availability, financing and interest rates, government requirements and red tape, inflation, quality of labor, cost of labor and “other.”

Here’s a chart breaking down what percent of small businesses cited each of these problems as their biggest challenge, going back to 1986:



Much of the debate about how to spur growth and encourage hiring has focused on making the tax picture temporarily more business-friendly. But as you can see, the portion of small businesses citing taxes as their superlative problem has remained about the same — mostly in the 17-22 percent range, say — for about a decade.

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http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/whats-holding-back-small-businesses/

[rfranklin]

1. Walmart would be the number one concern...

The Walton family should be sent to China.

[applegrove]

2. Someone tell this to the GOP. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

[girl gone mad]

4. And someone tell it to the Dems..

Who are also pushing for more tax cuts and small business lending, neither of which will do much (if any) good.

[Melissa G]

3. "Duh! "said by small business owner....

If we don't have any customers, we don't have any profit to tax, so who cares about a tax break! Most of us are worried about our losses, not our taxes in a poor economy. We are just trying to weather the storm and keep the doors open and the lights on!