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By Aaron Richardson - Talk Radio News Service

According to members of Congress, small business owners are the key to getting the economy back on it’s feet. Unfortunately, the proposed government run health care plan will levy a five percent payroll tax on small business owners who say this will cripple their finances and force many of them to shut down.

A roundtable discussion was held Tuesday in Washington D.C. to discuss the grievances small business owners have with government run health care.

“I would like to see an atmosphere out of Washington that says let’s help the small businessmen, not an atmosphere that says okay we have to pay for something let’s just hit the businessmen,” said Steve Rosenfield, owner of By The Rockies LLC.

“I’d have to put my employees on the government plan and I don’t want to. I want them to have the health care they like, go to the doctor they want to go to, get the tests that they need and I am willing to pay that no charge,” said Maureen O 'Conner, owner of Center Sheet Metal in Bronx, NY.

House Committee on Small Business member Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.) explained that many Democrats are not being totally straight with the American public.

“We keep hearing about how the Administration and Speaker Polosi’s plan is going to save the tax payers millions of dollars by spending trillions of tax payer dollars, and it is ridiculous. In Washington they call that 'bending the curve,' in Missouri they call it bending the truth,” said Graves.