ISSUES
NSBA is a uniquely member-driven organization where the small-business members drive our policy agenda. Every two years, at the beginning of a new Congress, NSBA holds the Small Business Congress where small-business owners discuss, debate and the vote on our Priority Issues.
In addition to the Priority Issues, NSBA works on various other issues of interest which are crafted through our active Issue Committee structure. Any NSBA member is welcome to participate in our four Issue Committees: Taxation, Economic Development, Environmental and Regulatory Affairs, and Health and Human Resources which meet via teleconference on a monthly basis. Please click here to get involved with NSBA’s Issue Committees.
THE ISSUES
Access to Capital
Health Care & Employee Benefits
Tax & Budget
Labor & Employment
Regulatory Reform
Environment & Energy
Exporting
Technology & Innovation
OUR PRIORITY ISSUES
Bolster SBA Lending
NSBA urges policymakers and regulators to seek every opportunity to strengthen and bolster the critical lending programs at the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Support Robust Small Business Contracting
NSBA supports reasonable reforms and policies that will further promote and facilitate small-business participation in the federal marketplace.
Improve Access to Credit
NSBA urges Congress and regulators to improve and enhance the availability of credit, capital and equity financing to small businesses, particularly as they work to survive and grow post-pandemic.
Rein-in the Costs of Health Care
NSBA urges policymakers to reduce health care costs through greater transparency, market-based incentives, reducing the rate of medical utilization, eliminating wasteful and harmful care, improving quality and eliminating the tax on self-employed health insurance.
Enact Tax Reform that Prioritizes Simplification
NSBA urges further tax reform that simplifies the tax code for small businesses, creates stability and predictability in our tax laws, moves toward greater tax parity and addresses the national debt.
Close the Partisan Divide and Reform Politics
NSBA urges policymakers to reduce the partisanship in our political system and thereby transform it into a higher-performing institution to best address the needs of America’s small businesses.
Improve Workforce Training
NSBA urges policymakers to seek solutions to the worker skills gap that makes hiring especially challenging and to ensure hiring is not hampered by unnecessary and unfair regulations.
Regulatory Reform and Paperwork Reduction
Congress should seek to ease the massive federal regulatory burden through proposals such as a national regulatory budget to bring much needed regulatory reform and transparency.
Strengthen Federal Innovation Programs
NSBA urges Congress to permanently authorize and increase the funding levels for the SBIR and STTR programs, while retaining oversight through required regular agency reporting to ensure that funding is being used appropriately.
Oppose Counter-Productive Minimum Wage Increases
NSBA urges policymakers to take caution in promulgating any kind of federal mandate on small businesses––particularly now under the weight of the pandemic and massive economic downturn.
Support Fair and Simple Capital Gains Taxes
NSBA cautions policymakers that any proposal to raise the taxes on capital gains must be structured to ensure that small businesses do not bear the burden.
JOIN AN ISSUE COMMITTEE
NSBA works on various other issues of interest which are crafted through our active Issue Committee structure. Any NSBA member is welcome to participate in our four Issue Committees: Taxation, Economic Development, Environmental and Regulatory Affairs, and Health and Human Resources which meet via teleconference on a monthly basis.
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