{"id":71,"date":"2010-10-27T06:55:50","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T06:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/?p=71"},"modified":"2010-12-16T06:34:56","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T06:34:56","slug":"obama-when-you-vote-against-small-business-tax-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"Obama \u201cWhen You Vote Against Small Business Tax Relief\u2026\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American President Obama explained to a group in Rhode  Island that it was his idea that he  was cutting taxes for small business 16 times, and making sure health  reform made it easier and more affordable to cover their employees.\u00a0  Most recently, it was the kind of business he was thinking of when he  signed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2010\/09\/27\/president-obama-signs-small-business-jobs-act-learn-whats-it\">Small Business Jobs Act<\/a>, which he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2010\/10\/25\/remarks-president-small-businesses-and-economy-woonsocket-rhode-island\">discussed with workers afterwards<\/a><\/p>\n<p>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8221; And last month, after plenty of political obstacles, after months in  which thousands of small business owners across America were waiting for  the loans and tax cuts they badly needed to grow their business and  hire new employees, I signed into law the Small Business Jobs Act.<\/p>\n<p>Now, that act extended provisions that helped support tens of  thousands of new SBA loans under the Recovery Act, and it waived fees on  those loans to save owners money on their payments -\u2013 something that  saved this particular company more than $9,000.<\/p>\n<p>In less than a month since that new law took effect, more than 3,600  small business owners have already received more than $1.4 billion worth  of new loans, with more to come &#8212; and the SBA has already begun  offering larger loans for small business owners who need them.<\/p>\n<p>The law also accelerates $55 billion in new tax cuts for businesses  both large and small that make job-creating investments over the next  year.\u00a0 It eliminates capital gains taxes on key new investments made in  small businesses until the end of this year.\u00a0 It dramatically increases  the amount small businesses can write off on new equipment investments  &#8212; and we want to do more, so that you can write it all off.\u00a0 These are  tax cuts that can help America &#8212; help businesses like American Cord and  Webbing that are making new investments right now.\u00a0 And it can help  create jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the law that we signed creates new initiatives to increase  lending to small businesses. It strengthens state programs that spur  private sector lending, and that\u2019s a step that will support $15 billion  in new small business loans across the country.\u00a0 And it sets up a new  Small Business Lending Fund that will support Main Street banks that  lend to Main Street businesses. &#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>the asian times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American President Obama explained to a group in Rhode Island that it was his idea that he was cutting taxes for small business 16 times, and making sure health reform made it easier and more affordable to cover their employees.\u00a0 Most recently, it was the kind of business he was thinking of when he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,8],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-america","category-world-news","tag-small-business-jobs-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}