[FatherofFive]

The device tax is a tax on gross receipts (sales, essentially) instead of a tax on profits

This is killing my business - three medical products compamies I work with have cancelled projects for next year, because of this tax. One distributor has a 4% margin. You just can't make this up in volume.

[DarkWaters]

4%? How do they plan on staying in business? Seriously. A tax on gross can be exponential in its effects.