{"id":3389,"date":"2013-11-22T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/?p=3389"},"modified":"2013-11-22T05:00:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T13:00:17","slug":"koch-bros-backed-group-gave-millions-to-small-business-lobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/3389\/koch-bros-backed-group-gave-millions-to-small-business-lobby\/","title":{"rendered":"Koch Bros.-backed group gave millions to small business lobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=dac16a7a0dc74a2dbaf8d64135ed334c&#038;url=http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/11\/21\/politics\/small-business-big-donor\/index.html&#038;c=HmmZ-7rlwh5XfT2tnsdOqfQJoEtSiy0oH3_HfZHNvXQ&#038;mkt=en-us'>Koch Bros.-backed group gave millions to small business lobby<\/a><br \/>&#8220;The idea that Koch brothers money in some way is going to help small businesses is laughable,&#8221; Gilbert said. &#8220;What they&#8217;re buying is the ability to help set the agenda.&#8221; And that agenda has included taking the lead on the lawsuit challenging  <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=dac16a7a0dc74a2dbaf8d64135ed334c&#038;url=http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/on-small-business\/heres-how-a-small-business-exemption-could-undermine-online-sales-tax-legislation\/2013\/11\/19\/a7945398-515b-11e3-9e2c-e1d01116fd98_story.html&#038;c=9GLTCu4GQ3LZc5-cjkWJWlhDFXXClanbSwv8C4htLRs&#038;mkt=en-us'>Here   s how a small-business exemption could undermine online sales tax legislation<\/a><br \/>As Congress continues to wrangle over legislation requiring online sellers to collect sales tax, one of the key sticking points has been whether to include an exemption for small merchants, shielding them from what some say would be overly  <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=dac16a7a0dc74a2dbaf8d64135ed334c&#038;url=http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-11-22\/novartis-sets-5-billion-buyback-adds-business-segments.html&#038;c=yL0QL5LUzWjHrcXuzg7yKNzufvKDxg6M9CeRyr5W_pQ&#038;mkt=en-us'>Novartis Sets $5 Billion Buyback, Adds Business Segments<\/a><br \/>Novartis AG (NOVN) plans to buy back $5 billion in stock over two years and said it will expand in faster-growing areas of health care such as treatments for skin and heart diseases. 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DETROIT     Cars that run on hydrogen and exhaust only water vapor are emerging to challenge electric vehicles as the world  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Koch Bros.-backed group gave millions to small business lobby&#8220;The idea that Koch brothers money in some way is going to help small businesses is laughable,&#8221; Gilbert said. &#8220;What they&#8217;re buying is the ability to help set the agenda.&#8221; And that agenda has included taking the lead on the lawsuit challenging Here s how a small-business &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/3389\/koch-bros-backed-group-gave-millions-to-small-business-lobby\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Koch Bros.-backed group gave millions to small business lobby<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3390,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389\/revisions\/3390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}