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SmallBusiness.com News Wire WSJ Editorial: House Health Care Plan Includes Small Business "Surtax" | WSJ.com (The House Plan) includes an astonishing eight percentage point increase above the current 15% payroll tax for employers who don't provide coverage. House Health Plan Includes 8% Payroll Tax for Employers Who Don't Provide Coverage | NYTimes.com Under the plan, employers who don't provide coverage would be taxed 8% of payroll with exemption for smallest of companies: Payrolls under $250k will be exempt, with sliding scale of 2%-6% of payrolls from $250-$400k. Small businesses brace for slow recovery | Reuters NFIB said its monthly index of small business optimism slipped one point to a reading of 87.9 last month. It had gained 7.9 points since March, indicating a view the economy was stabilizing "The economy is bouncing along the bottom and reorganizing itself to restart the growth process," said William Dunkelberg, chief economist for the NFIB. Analysis: U.S. small business funding dry, getting drier | Reuters U.S. small businesses, already facing the toughest credit conditions since the 1980s, may soon find things are about to get tougher. More headlines | RSS

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