Except for a few no-go areas, such as any tax increases on "small business".
The Republican National Committee has turned to Twitter regularly to talk about the impact of tax increases on small businesses, using the hashtag #StopTheTaxHike.
The former Massachusetts governor and businessman added that Obama's proposal to allow the expiration of tax cuts on upper-level income would mean tax increases on small businesses that create jobs by the hundreds of thousands.
"The president's demanding a massive tax increase on small businesses, which will cost us jobs, in exchange for these defense sequesters.
"In the middle of a serious recession, with unemployment nearing double digits, the last thing we need is a tax increase on small businesses, which will cost the American economy even more jobs," said Michael Steel, a spokesman for the House Republican leader, Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio.
But he won't tolerate a tax increase on "small businesses," none of which fall under the top income bracket, and, oh by the way, Obama's already cut taxes on small businesses many different ways.
"I want to tell you I will not only help you buy that business that you have worked your whole life for... and I will not have or stand for a tax increase on small business income... What you want to do to Joe the Plumber... is have their taxes increase".
And I will not have, I will not stand for, a tax increase on small-business income.... MR. OBAMA I think tax policy is a major difference between Senator McCain and myself.
It's more likely Summers is reinforcing the President's already firm bias that the way to lastingly revive the economy is through massive government spending, increased taxes on small and midsize businesses, increased levies on energy and heavier burdens on capital.
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A spokesman for Mr. DeMint, Wesley Denton, said, "He's disappointed it is being paid for by increasing burdens on small businesses that create jobs instead of using unspent stimulus funds".
