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Contributing Business Writer

Collette McKenna Parker

September 26, 2008

At the risk of repeating myself, here is another blog and another web site for comparing how McCain and Obama would treat entrepreneurs. For a cut and dry contrast on the issues affecting entrepreneurs (and this is important because it's not just "small businesses"), check out Inc. magazine's The Entrepreneur's Guide to the Presidential Election. 
 
If you crave some reading with more emotion and opinion behind it (but just a little), read Robb Mandelbaum's blog, The Entrepreneurial Agenda. Yesterday, he wrote about the Inc. 500 conference held in Washington D.C. last week. An economic policy debate was scheduled between McCain's top economic advisor - Douglas Holtz-Eakin - and Obama's - Jason Furman. Furman was unable to be there, and so Holtz-Eakin obligingly sat in both seats (one at a time) and spoke about both candidate's positions.
 
Mandelbaum writes, "It was funny and mostly gracious, and worked to McCain's advantage not just for the impression of magnanimity it conveyed, but because it also allowed Holtz-Eakin to gently place the Obama agenda in an unfavorable frame. Returning to his original seat, Holtz-Eakin gave himself the last word. The Obama plan 'is just a flat transfer program, and it is worse than that in my view,' he said, because it simultaneously undermines incentives at the top and the bottom. 'You have to fight the intellectual case that it is better to have a job, the foundation of a future, the ability to run an enterprise, growth in the economy than have a short-run gain.'"
 

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