Small-business owners come out swinging against Obama’s tax plan

Small manufacturers cry uncle
By VICTORIA MCGRANE
3/11/09

Stew McMillan, president of Task Force Tips, a 200-employee manufacturer of fire hose nozzles based in Valparaiso, Ind., said there’s a grim new joke going around.

“How many more things can the people who make over $250,000 pay for?”

He and other small-business owners, along with their advocates in Washington, are coming out swinging against President Barack Obama’s plan to let income tax rates for America’s wealthiest rise in 2011, saying it is an ill-timed attack on small businesses that will stymie job growth. the rest