Small Businesses: Citizens United Hurts Us (for 1/21/12)

Two of every three U.S. small business owners say that the Supreme Court's January 2010 decision in Citizens' United harms them. The American Sustainable Business Council and Main Street Alliance asked 500 of them in a recent survey and they said money that big corporations spend in political campaigns hurts small businesses. Big corporations can spend their money to get special tax breaks and relief from regulations that they oppose. They can also use their economies of scale, large bank accounts, and the thousands of employees they have to find those hidden tax breaks that overburdened small business owners do not have the time to find. http://mainstreetalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Release-smallbusinesspoll-CitizensUnited.pdf