Big Lies and "small" business

I find it amazing that the corporatist right -- slaves to multinationals and no friends to real "mom and pop" companies -- can prattle on about "small business," and nobody calls them on their mendacity.

Consider the argument advanced by Senate Republicans and the white House that small businesses need new tax cuts to offset the pain they'll feel from the Dems' minimum wage hike. As it turns out, that's not really a problem:

Small business owners are not losing much sleep about an increase in the national minimum wage, according to a recent survey by national payroll service provider SurePayroll.

According to the SurePayroll survey, the majority of small businesses (51 percent) don't even know what the minimum wage is in their state. Of the small business owners surveyed by SurePayroll, only 3 percent pay the national minimum wage to some of their employees. Only 6 percent of the respondents pay a state-mandated minimum wage to some of their employees.