Chairman's Column
Stand Up for American Business Interests In November—VOTE!
Bob Taylor, President and CEO, Do it Best Corp.
2010 NAW Chairman of the Board
Now that we’re a year and a half into the Obama Administration, we’re well aware of the policy objectives of this Administration and its allies on Capitol Hill — bigger and more expensive government financed by higher taxes and record deficits, and empowerment of labor union bosses.
Since President Obama entered the White House, the federal government has spent $1.8 trillion, our annual federal deficit has jumped to $1.5 trillion, and our national debt has surpassed $13 trillion. Taxes have increased $656 billion. We’ve already seen enacted a half-trillion in new revenue over 10 years to pay for a comprehensive health care reform law that will actually increase employers’ premium costs, national health expenditures, and government spending for health care. Included in this is an increase in the Medicare payroll tax for upper income earners and — for the first time ever — the collection of the Medicare payroll tax on non-payroll, unearned income.
That’s the bad news. The good news is that, fortunately for all of us across our industry, the political arm of the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors (NAW) — the Wholesaler-Distributor Political Action Committee (WDPAC) — is working vigorously to make the 2010 elections a referendum on these disastrous economic policies and to elect pro-business, pro-free enterprise candidates to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. This is desperately needed to get our country back on a path of real and sustainable economic growth for wholesaler-distributors, our suppliers and customers, and our employees.
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