Obama wants to drive them out of business.
The big-government/big-corporate criminal complex doesn't like competition.
Stalin called them kulaks, which Solzhenitsyn patiently explained to us non-Russian speakers was a slur, and then he killed them by the tens of thousands. Murdered them, to make a whole class of successful farmers go away.
My wife and I have had a small, 20-person company for well over 20 years now. Just last night we identified the criteria for making the decision to shut down the company.
If it's not reasonably profitable, why do it? Maybe I'll go get a government job(?)