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The NFIB's Post-Election Agenda
By Bizbox
The group's president and CEO Todd Stottlemyer lays it out here. Suffice to say that many of the items enumerated on the ten-point plan are not exactly Democratic priorities. Indeed, the NFIB is going to be none too pleased if and when congressional Democrats and President-Elect Barack Obama get around to proposing so-called card-check legislation, which would make unionizing much easier than it is now.
Still, there are probably some areas for compromise, and our guess is that, on the Democratic side, you will see that in the area of taxation. The Democratic candidate just won on a platform of keeping the vast, vast majority of the country's income taxes low. This will not be a substantial battleground.
But compromise comes from both sides.
No one expects the NFIB to come out, all of a sudden, in favor of card-check, a signature issue for the group. But we do hope that when Obama and the Congress gets around to tackling our health-care system--which majorities of all political dispositions agree is fundamentally broken--we hope that the NFIB and other small business interest groups will keep an open mind. There are many ways to fix health care. And who said a more aggressive tack isn't good for businesses?
Comments (0)November 5, 2008 3:03 PM
