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Segunda-feira, 31 de Maio de 2010
Obama Proposes Tax Cut for Mega Rich Venture Capitalist Contributors

"President Barack Obama has proposed new legislation that will allow many of the nation's wealthiest venture capitalists to avoid paying billions of dollars in federal income tax. Under the new proposal some of President Obama's top campaign contributors in the venture capital industry will be exempt from capital gains tax.

I believe President Obama will also back legislation and policy that will attempt to change the longstanding federal definition of a small business as being "independently owned." President Obama will likely back legislation or policy that will change the federal definition of a small business to include firms owned by many of the nation's wealthiest venture capitalists.

If he is successful, billions of dollars a month in federal small business contracts will be diverted from legitimate small businesses, and into the hands of mega wealthy venture capitalists.

President Obama has maintained close ties to the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) since his days in the Illinois State Legislature. Wealthy venture capitalists were major contributors to President Obama's campaign. In February of 2009, a story in the Venture Capital Journal titled, "Real Change: New President Gets VC," boasted about the close relationship between President Obama and the venture capital industry."(...)


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