Same old, tired hooey on estate taxes

Estate tax repeal is still on the table, prompting me to repeat something I’ve been writing for years: this is not a small business issue. Why not? Because, with 90% of small businesses being microbusinesses and with something like only 400,000 small businesses (out of 24 million) being subject to the estate tax, it is [...]

Mr. and Mrs. Dole

Today’s quote of the day, from the Congressional Quarterly Mid-day Update:
“I note the absence of the senator from North Carolina.” — former Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., referring to his wife, Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., as he testified at a Senate Armed Services hearing today.

Fax rule fix heads to the President’s desk

That do-not-fax rule that the FCC was set to deploy, no matter how many hissy fits the folks at Advocacy threw about how burdensome such regulations were going to be to small businesses, is now history.

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