The guys in this story aren't begging for tax breaks or special consideration or cutting the social safety net. They just ask for a fair playing field.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/27/small-businesses-debt-deal-deficit-limit_n_911181.htmlThey are asking for an end to the tax cheating that huge corporations do with the help and support of the republican party.
On Wednesday, Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) and 43 other House Democrats introduced the Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act, a companion to legislation Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) unveiled earlier in July. The bill targets tax dodging by both corporations and wealthy individuals, who can also stash money in secretive offshore bank accounts and even set up their own foreign corporations to avoid paying U.S. taxes. Doggett and Levin say their bill could generate $100 billion a year in revenue that is currently just sitting in corporate coffers abroad.
The legislation has the strong support of several small business groups.
"It's outrageous that companies can take advantage of our country's legal, social and economic infrastructure, yet they do whatever they can to avoid paying their fair tax rate to support it," says Jody Gorran, Chairman of the New Jersey-based Aquatherm Industries, a company that makes solar-powered heating for swimming pools. "It would bring in $100 billion a year. That's $1 trillion over the 10-year window. Go for it, for God's sake."
If we can get the president and more Democrats behind this, we can generate some support from the real "job creators".