Obama – You are my President, I am with you

Dear President-Elect Obama,

I am a middle aged small business owner of two companies, one in telecommunications and one in internet marketing.  I did not vote for you because I disagreed with much of what you espoused during the campaign.

However, you are my President and I pray for your wisdom and success in leading our country.  I do not agree with extremists that appear to be against you just because their guy lost.  I am an American, first and always, so I want you to do great things for our country.

Clearly the economy is front and center as surely your highest priority and I believe you agree with this.  I just want you to know that we work with many small businesses like ours who are owned by entrepreneurs that do earn more than $200-$250K per year.  If you hike the federal income tax on the owners of these businesses, they will have no choice but to cut back in their business and in their own personal spending as well.  Hiking the FICA tax will just exacerbate the situation. This will no doubt lead to more lost jobs and can potentially snowball.

I believe you need to undertstand this because it is unquestionably true.  If you raise taxes paid by the owners of small businesses, jobs will be lost and prices will be increased to compensate for the lost income.  And it will be the poor who will end up suffering as well because they will have to pay the higher prices.  So, if you increase taxes your create a major source for price inflation and that isn’t good for anybody.

My Internet Marketing Services Company works everyday to generate growth and profits for our clients.  I want you to institute pro-growth policies based on incentives and merit.  This is how our country became great and that is how you can help it become greater than ever.  So please understand, I am with you as is a great majority of Americans.  Make government work to ENABLE opportunity and not make it a scarce commodity.

With Great Respect and Admiration,

Arthur Cooper

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