According to the Small Business Administration....?

When it is said that profit margins are the highest they have ever been, the corporations are added into the average. Small business profits are not that much. Minimum wage increase is an attack on small business set up by the corporations. It is the corporations that want all of these regulations, so they can get a monopoly. The founding fathers wouldn't let a corporation stay open but for so long for this very reason.

Democrat, Republican. Same thing, they hide their corruption behind compromise. They cant just let corporations take over in just one day. People will notice the corporate take over, but if they do it over time, we become acclimated.

I agree y, that equal pay is only fair, but the way it is set up, the equal pay will hurt the small business by the order in which these regulations are placed. Equal pay should have been from the beginning, these guys know what they are doing.

The SBA definition of a small business is very large. Depending on the nature of the business the number of employees could be as high as 1500 people and gross receipts 21.5 million dollars.

As a former business owner, I would call that Big business.

That was a loophole inserted by Republicans to exempt almost every company in the country from regulations.

Even if the maximum number of employees were reduced to 100 and gross receipts 50 million, the number of jobs created by ultra small businesses would be a majority.

SBA loans are impossible to get for a white male. A noncitizen will get a loan easily. A white woman might get one under some unusual circumstances like there are no so called minority applications in that SBA offices jurisdiction.

As the Original Mortal Sin of starting a business is under capitalization, it makes the possibility for failure much higher for white males than anyone else. If they have a unique idea that is successful to a degree, the business is sold to a larger company within a few years. Under capitalization is a burden that never goes away.

Very small businesses are also the place where many young inexperienced people get started in a profession they keep the rest of their lives. These small businesses can't afford experienced labor so they train the you guns themselves. If they like it and excel they stay with it. That is the way I started and taught others to do the same.

Larger companies always seek experienced employees.

I agree with evilwax, both parties now cater to those that give them the most, big business. Although small business should be exempt from some regs, fair pay is not one of them. That doesn't mean I agree with this bill as it is written though. You even have dem talking heads saying that the presidents rhetoric yesterday in this regards was over the top. The plush now is simple for the election cycle

Contrary to popular opinion there is nothing SMALL about many small businesses

The US Department of Labor's definition of a small business

What is a small business?

The Office of Advocacy defines a small business as an independent business having fewer than 500 employees. (The definition of “small business” used in government programs and contracting varies by industry; see www.sba.gov/size.

The SBA definition of a small business is not the same as the one used in the law see http://www.sba.gov/content/what-sbas-definition-sm...

If a business is really small they do not have enough employees to demenstrate they have a policy of paying women less.

This law isn't about fair work practices. It's about playing to an agenda that has little basis in fact. I have yet to work a single job where women start out at less than men. The fact that many of them can't keep up is mostly due to the time many of them lose to have kids. Why should they get payed the same for losing work time?

evilwax deserves the points.....