Does anyone really believe that small business can afford this burden of having to pay the extra 3%?
Only lefties and people with rocks in their head will believe this.
My prediction is that there will be small businesses that will just close their doors. There is a limit to how many extra costs can be absorbed, especially in this economic environment.
There is no skill in a "government" who thinks that major reform, is merely putting new taxes and costs on those that support the economy.
This mob are self interested, and either incompetent or brain dead.(or perhaps both)
