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How come Sean Hannity is spreading the falsehood that small businesses will be taxed?

Fox News' Sean Hannity advanced the falsehood that those provisions would cause a large percentage of small businesses to pay higher taxes. In fact, according to the Tax Policy Center's table of 2007 tax returns that reported small business income, 481,000 of those returns -- about 2 percent -- are in the top two income tax brackets, which include all filers with taxable incomes that would be affected.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200902270005?f=h_top

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/numbers/displayatab...

Sean Hannity....why do you continue to lie and lie and lie and lie???????

Update:

Media Matters's source is the Tax Policy Center.....they are hardly partisan, lol.

What is Sean Hannity's source?????

Update 2:

Since when has factcheck.org become a biased website???? Oh yea....since they started reporting facts.

The truth is biased, isn't it?

Update 3:

Actually, a large portion of small businesses don't even have employees and those who do, have usually a few employees and after deductions the owner of the business makes under $250, 000 a year.

Only 2% of small businesses will get taxed under Obama's plan according to the Tax Policy Center.

Now what is Sean Hannity's source again??? Still waiting.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Actually Hannity's 100% correct. Many small businesses bring in more than $250,000. Your fabricated figures just don't wash. Obama is out to punish the successful, hoping to gain votes from the wealth-envy crowd. We've only seen the tip of the iceburg, compared to what he's going to try to do to redistribute wealth in America. He was exposed as the most liberal socialist in the Senate, and he hasn't moved toward the center since he got elected, nor does he intend to do so.

  • rrm38
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    I don't listen to Sean Hannity, so I can't speak as a listener nor do I care to defend him directly. What I can say is that my mother owns a small business. Because of a reduced client base in this recession, she has stopped receiving a paycheck from her business... just to keep the doors open and not have to lay off any employees. She WILL fall into the 2% that you mention. Given that she's not received a paycheck since October and has cut every other expense she can, when the increase kicks in she will have no choice but to lay off employees. If it gets too much worse then she'll have to shut the doors altogether. All with the turn of a key on her part, about 30 people will be unemployed. Two percent may not seem like a lot to you, but when lots of the businesses in that two percent find themselves in the same position, you'll see the impact. So, I don't know what Hannity's source is but my source is every day life and what I'm watching before my eyes. My mom is close with several small business owners in her area, and many of them are in the same boat. Go ahead and down play it all you like. I hope for your sake that you're not employed by one of the businesses in that two percent.

  • 1 decade ago

    Everyone here keeps talking about the 'TRUTH'.

    The truth is if you raise taxes on a small business owner -- particularly anyone that has employees (which is usually someone making more than $250K) you are impacting not only his company but the people he employs.

    Whether Hannity said something or not, the 'TRUTH' is that if I owned a company of 20 people and someone raised my taxes, there would be smaller Christmas bonuses this year if any. I'd ask my employees to take a pay cut so that I wouldn't have to fire anyone. I'd figure out a way to shelter my money so that I would fall underneath the $250K. ANYTHING to avoid firing people or wasting money on government taxes. His rhetoric brings down markets but gains him NOTHING as business owners (smarter than Obama and Biden) will find a way to keep Government out of their pockets--none of it includes spending money, growing business or hiring people.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The Sean Hannity method:

    "Sir do you believe in *Insert platitude all Americans agree with that forces a yes or no* (we'll say Freedom)?"

    "Yes" If person continues cut them off saying it's a simple question.

    "Well then do you support *Insert inane republican cause* (we'll say The Iraq War.)?"

    "No." If person continues cut them off saying it's not an argument it's a simple question. Call them out for being an argumentative truth distorting liberal.

    "Well then sir you do not believe in Freedom, you do not support the troops and you are just another radical liberal destroying America."

    It's all just forced yes or no to sustain and/or stroke the goop most republicans call their brains. Hannity is a twit, he thinks that because he worked as a construction worker he knows what is best for the average American - he somehow thinks that every average American is a construction worker. Yes, I've heard the story about how he had to steal oranges from his neighbors trees so he could eat and how he had to buy $400.00 cars, congratulations Sean you're mediocre.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    He is correct they will, many of them fall into above the 250,000k tax bracket. Because they are a sole proprietor when they file taxes they will be it hard ! It will affect any employees they have as well, they may not be able to continue to have employees.

    That is just like all the liberals who think it is so great to make the rich pay, the stupidity of that is unreal ! So they really think they will not be paying more taxes ? They are going to up the gas tax, they are going to tax you on capital gain, tax you on inheritance , they intend to raise taxes on the utility companies, which will be passed to you, still a tax ! They are going to eliminate programs to the farmers, guess what ? Your groceries will go up ! The trucking companies will raise delivery fees on everything if they start taxing people for mileage, ups the price of every thing you buy ! They want to tax you for mileage you drive ! Wake up fools you are in deed getting a tax increase ! He doesn't have the guts to tell you the truth and thinks you are all to stupid to figure it out ! Think about it !

  • zoldak
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    i do no longer think of Hannity suggested that he hated your business enterprise,he in simple terms suggested his opinion and that would not advise that one and all is going to believe him. Now it truly is as much as you to cajole people who you supply a mandatory service. If the conservatives hate small business enterprise and easily desire to help huge business enterprise and that's changing below Obama then the place has our funds been going for the previous 12 months. what proportion small business enterprise can anybody call that won stimulus funds or had their business enterprise propped up with our tax funds and then what proportion super corps. had super sums of money surpassed to them no questions asked. If no longer something it sounds like business enterprise as known in D.C.

  • Phil M
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Its Sean Hannity...what do you expect? I don't know of too many Republicans that like him, I do know a few conservatives that do though.

    Jeffrey, if your revenue is 250K that doesn't mean your income is 250K. You have expenses that would eat up at least 50-60% of that.

    Hannity frequently uses World Net Daily and the heritage org.

  • 1 decade ago

    That is what he does. The man has nevered uttered a correct fact in his life. He cannot even debate a subject with a knowledgable person. He has to scream and use name calling or belittling to try and get a point across. Kind of reminds me of kindergarten.

  • 1 decade ago

    Interesting that CNN and ABC are also referred to in the first source you gave, but you only attacked Hannity, of FOX news.

  • 1 decade ago

    and things quoted by fox are reputable?

    Wow......

    The only reason Hannity, OhRiely and the rest do as well as the are is because people apparently can't think for themselves.

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