Senate Republicans held a news conference Wednesday afternoon with a trio of small-business owners to blast the Obama administration’s plan to allow Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans to expire at the end of the year, while extending only those that apply to middle-class families. They argued that more than half of all small-business income would be hit by the increase, potentially imperiling businesses that employ as many as 30 million workers.
Geithner says GOP wrong, ending tax cuts for wealthy won’t hurt small business
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