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Small Business Hopes For First 100 Days In Office
Kevin_SBM
Small Business Engagement ManagerMember admin
As we enter the critical first 100 Days of Joe Biden's Presidency, what are some small business initiatives that you are hoping to see? What initiatives do you think will have the greatest positive impact on small business owners across the nation?
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An Energy Efficiency Infrastructure plan that is focused on providing small businesses the opportunities and set-asides to be the main contract holders. Currently federal agencies contract with Large Energy Servicing Companies or Publicly Owned Utilities to perform this work due to procurement availability and these big businesses effectively dictate the subcontract awards. We need these agencies to have direct engagement with small business to perform this vital work to fight climate change and invest in our own infrastructure to operate more efficiently.
Concerned about the intent to reverse the TRUMP Tax cuts for Small businesses. With COVID issues, the Tax cuts have been beneficial in keeping many in business. Democrats have a history of not supporting small businesses and focus on large business opportunities and treating small businesses like large.
We need to have a definitive plan for incentives to get people back to work, whether it is grants and/or loans but with everything having been shutdown for about 3/4 of a business year there has to be some incentives to hire.
Stop throwing economic development dollars at big organizations because they are big. The money is not reaching who it needs to reach. Rural areas are getting very little of this money. People are moving to rural areas with broadband to work remotely and build companies. COVID has taught us that rural can rise with the internet. It needs to be supported through local organizations.
EIDL payment relief or moratorium - my first payment is coming due this August and we are not remotely out of the pandemic or producing cashflow to be able to afford the additional EIDL payment I have taken on.