The seemingly unanswerable small-business question | Michael Tomasky

One of the big questions about the current tax debate that I don't know the answer to, and that I increasingly get the sense no one knows the answer to, is how many small businesses would actually be affected if Obama and the Congress did not extend the Bush tax cuts for upper-bracket earners.

Mitch McConnell puts his support for extending all Bush tax cuts mostly in small-business terms. Obviously, he doesn't want to talk about multi-millionaires. So he says things like:

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