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>>>I am also a small business owner, and my partners and I have already laid out a plan to adapt to the probable cost increases coming down the pipe...and it WILL involve firing some employees.<<<<

As am I. We will cut staff by at least 10% , RAISE prices ,and cut costs in every way we can to survive.

As am I. We will cut staff by at least 10% , RAISE prices ,and cut costs in every way we can to survive.

Would it help businesses like yours if the government laid out the following policies :

*Businesses would be free to write off capital purchases as quickly as they – not the feds – deem economical.

*America frightens foreign capital by taxing it at the industrial world's second-highest corporate tax rate. At 40 percent (35 federal, plus 5 percent average state and local tax), only Japan's 40.7 percent combined rate is higher. To become competitive and attract investment, this tax should be no higher than the European Union's 23.2 percent average.

*How about a five-year emergency suspension of all capital-gains taxes?" suggests Club for Growth president Pat Toomey. "No one has any capital gains! What could the Fed's cap-gains haul possibly be this year – maybe $1.50? There is nothing to lose and much to gain if it would stimulate investment and maybe even help the market establish a bottom.

*Letting anyone granted a new patent enjoy the revenues it generates for, say, five years tax-free.

*Offer "Emerald Cards" to millionaires everywhere. Without closing the Golden Door to those less fortunate, these high-end Green Cards would go instantly to any successful, law-abiding immigrant who could deposit $1 million in a U.S. bank, open a business, and hire at least five employees.

Just some ideas I got from others which I would have proposed had I been a legislator.