Why do Repubs think small business is so important?

Mitchel Demry: Small businesses are sacred cows, like farmers. Everyone says that small businesses are job creators, but they're also huge job destroyers -- thousands of small businesses go under each year.There are plenty of businesses that don't require a ton of capital, but many of the ones that create high-paying jobs do actually require a lot of investment....Show more

Sibyl Siwik: There are many large companies that started out small. Look at Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, even Ford started out small. Once of the most technologically advanced cars on the road today is made by Tesla; a small business. If you look at the innovation in the Tesla cars, I don't see how you could say small businesses don't have the ability to innovate.

Daria Verfaillie: Without small businesses my county would have ZERO jobs.

Ulysses Failey: Most large businesses started out as small businesses.Here in Silicon Valley Apple Computer, Hewlett Packard, Yahoo, Google, and Intel! , just to name a few, all started out as small businesses. Intel could not even pay their bills when they started up.In that anti business environment that we have today in California, it is doubtful that any of those businesses would have survived their start up years in the business hostile environment that we have today.....Show more

Joel Feagler: @Blake U R sadly mistaken. No, the U2 spy plane wasn't invented in someone's backyard. The CERN cyclotron isn't a tube put together for a couple grand, and most sci research DOES REQUIRE big expensive equip that no small group could afford. Your ignorance doesnt make U right.