Over the weekend, the Washington Post offered a welcome dose of clarity in the debate over who really bears the burden of higher taxes. As the Board put it:

Taxing ‘the rich’ would affect most private-sector workers, who are employed by pass-throughs but are not rich themselves. Jacking up taxes on small employers isn’t going to help make the American economy fairer or more competitive.

This is a big issue that we touched on just last week. S&P 500 companies employ roughly 18 percent of the U.S. workforce, while privately-owned firms employ nearly 80 percent.

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If you follow financial news, you could be forgiven for thinking the American economy begins and ends with Nvidia, Apple, and a handful of other S&P 500 giants.

But a recent analysis from Apollo’s Torsten Slok offers a useful reminder that those companies represent a much smaller slice of the actual economy than their coverage suggests. The numbers, instead, point straight to Main Street.

Slok’s data shows that S&P 500 companies employ roughly 18 percent of the total US workforce and account for about 21 percent of all capital investment in the economy. Privately owned firms, by contrast, drive nearly 80 …

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The One Big Beautiful Bill is delivering real benefits for millions of small and family-owned businesses, but how many taxpayers know they benefitted, and how should Main Street advocates best communicate those benefits?

That was the central focus of our latest webinar featuring longtime allies David Winston and Myra Miller of The Winston Group, who walked through fresh national and Georgia-specific survey results focused on the new tax bill.

Key takeaways included:

• Taxpayers strongly support the tax bill, but only when they understand how they benefit from its provisions. Main Street advocates need to discuss the specifics of the bill and avoid …
  
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