Small business owners around Washington state support closing corporate tax loopholes and ending Bush-era tax cuts for wealthy individuals, according to a new survey.
The Main Street Alliance of Washington, a coalition of more than 2,000 small businesses, conducted door-to-door and telephone surveys of over 100 small business owners in 15 cities and released the results today, as President Barack Obama and lawmakers in the other Washington tried to hammer out a deal to avoid the upcoming ?fiscal cliff.?
Among the survey?s findings:
- 88 percent said Congress should end the Bush tax cuts for those with incomes above $250,000, while just 4 percent supported renewing the cuts.
- 72 percent said big corporations pay less than their fair share of taxes. Only 3 percent said they pay more than their fair share, and 8 percent said they pay their fair share.
- Asked to choose between making more budget cuts or closing corporate tax loopholes, 87 percent chose closing loopholes, while just 2 percent chose more budget cuts.
In a release about the survey, the group quoted Tiffany Turner, owner of Adrift Hotel in Long Beach, offering her view on the tax-cut debate taking place in Washington, D.C., right now:
?There are over 100 small businesses in my city of Long Beach, and there are zero that I am aware of that make over $250,000 a year,? Turner said. ?It?s time to do what?s right for small businesses and the country: end the Bush tax cuts for the richest 2 percent.?
Read more about the survey here (PDF).
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