In the debate over the payroll tax cut, Democrats want to pay for extending the tax break with a surtax on the wealthy. Republicans claim--usually without being challenged by reporters--that a surtax on millionaires would be an attack on job-creating small-business owners.
So NPR decided to go to GOP officials and ask to speak with these small-business-owning, millionaire job-creators. Turned out there was trouble finding any:
We wanted to talk to business owners who would be affected. So NPR requested help from numerous Republican congressional offices, including House and Senate leadership. They were unable to produce a single millionaire job creator for us to interview.
So we went to the business groups that have been lobbying against the surtax. Again, three days after putting in a request, none of them was able to find someone for us to talk to.They did find a few wealthy business owners willing to talk--and they said their personal tax rate wasn't a factor in their hiring decisions.
Imagine if journalists did this kind of thing all the time?
by Peter Hart at FAIR: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
Businesses add workers when there is increasing demand for their products and services. Simple, but it seems impossible for some people to get.
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Venture capitalist Nick Hanauer wrote a recent op ed about who the real job creators are. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-01/raise-taxes-on-the-rich-to-reward-job-creators-commentary-by-nick-hanauer.html
It's a bit bizarre that no matter how many Warren Buffets and Nick Hanauers talk about this, the press remains more interested in what Newt has for breakfast than in millions of Americans in poverty. Time to occupy the Fourth Estate.
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