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Federal policies have been hitting small businesses particularly hard. From the lockdown to heightened IRS scrutiny to an increased minimum wage to an expanded estate tax, many federal policies harm small businesses more than corporations and so jeopardizes the livelihoods of almost half of American workers.

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Quick Hits

Chick-fil-A

https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/south-carolina-chick-fil-a-manager-covid-19-vaccine-drive-thru

Dodger Stadium

https://news.yahoo.com/dodger-stadiums-covid-19-vaccination-233339650.html

Foolishness of the Week

Impeachment 1

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/30/us/politics/trump-butch-bowers-impeachment.html

Impeachment 2
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/30/politics/butch-bowers-deborah-barbier-trump-impeachment-team/index.html

Topic of the Week

The War on Small Businesses
https://insidesources.com/the-war-on-small-business/

Minimum Wage Costs 1.3 Million Jobs
https://reason.com/2019/07/08/cbo-says-15-federal-minimum-wage-will-cost-1-3-million-jobs/

List of Minimum Wage Peer-Reviewed Research
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fbSTGYQP5ObsEMjgbDWB2W8pgz64XZS5/view?usp=sharing

The Economics of the Estate Tax

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SrMWCAq-HfJdRGBjjQ7kr-KMTGlJjKvX/view?usp=sharing

Survey of Businesses Owners on the Effect of the Estate Tax
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1111/j.1741-6248.1996.00303.x
Union Contracts Tied to Minimum Wage
https://www.forbes.com/sites/edrensi/2017/01/19/why-it-is-that-unions-fund-the-fight-for-15/

States to Tax Stimulus Loan Forgiveness

https://advocacy.sba.gov/2020/11/03/some-states-may-tax-forgiven-ppp-loan-proceeds/

IRS Targeting Small Businesses

https://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/tax-compliance/news/21205514/irs-expected-to-audit-more-small-businesses-in-2021

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