Speaker Boehner delivered the following response to President Obama today, urging the administration to work with Republicans on a balanced approach to resolving the fiscal cliff.
Tag: Small Business
“A ‘balanced’ approach isn’t balanced if it means we increase the amount of money coming into the coffers of government, but we don’t cut spending and address entitlements at the same time,” said Speaker Boehner. “We’re asking [President Obama] to make good on his ‘balanced’ approach” – and to tell the American people what spending cuts he’s willing to make.
Last week, a new report showed job growth is “well below what is needed” and the White House blew off a deadline to report on the impact of the Obama defense ‘sequester.’
Here’s a look at what President Obama once said about the economically damaging effects of a small business tax hike - at a time when economic growth was actually stronger than it is today.
Speaker Boehner noted Republicans are taking action to stop the small business tax hike while President Obama has been too busy campaigning to even meet with his jobs council.
The majority of American small business owners say excessive red tape coming out of Washington is making it harder for them to grow their businesses and create jobs.
Speaker Boehner today responded to President Obama’s attack on small businesses, highlighting his own experience as a small business owner.
Wages are dropping, consumer confidence is slipping and the private sector isn’t creating enough jobs to bring down the sky-high unemployment rate.
Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision on ObamaCare has left small business owners reeling – raising fears of even higher health care costs and more roadblocks to growing their businesses and creating jobs. Republicans will vote on July 11 to fully repeal ObamaCare, and will then work to replace the 2,700 page monstrosity with a “step-by-step approach to health care reform that will protect Americans’ access to the care they need, from the doctor they choose, at a lower cost,” Speaker Boehner said yesterday.
It’s clear that President Obama must believe that – like the private sector – small businesses facing a maze of ObamaCare penalties, mandates, taxes and regulations are doing “just fine.” Unfortunately for the 20 million unemployed and underemployed Americans who are counting on small businesses to create jobs, they’re not.
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