claim: small businesses that have "$250,000 in gross sales for the business. they're the ones that are looking at massive tax increases."
author: michele bachmann
evidence_1: jul 11, 2012 ... house republicans exploit americans' confusion about marginal rates to sow  fear about obama's proposed tax hikes. .... relatively few people—whether they' re highly skilled professionals, managers of large firms, or owners of small  businesses—are successful enough to have more than $250,000 in ...
evidence_2: nov 23, 2010 ... small businesses that have "$250,000 in gross sales for the business ... they're  the ones that are looking at massive tax increases." this is another variation on  the claim that tax increases will hit small business. this statement is wrong  because gross sales are all the money a business takes in.
evidence_3: jul 19, 2012 ... allowing the top two marginal tax rates to return to pre-2001 levels as scheduled  next year would affect very few small businesses, a recent treasury ... of the  value of the tax cut would flow to filers with more than $1 million in adjusted gross  income, who would get an average tax cut of $164,000 a piece.[5].
evidence_4: sep 29, 2017 ... most americans want to raise or keep constant tax rates for people earning  $250,000 or more; the gop plan would cut the top rate for them too. one poll  suggests that 79 percent of americans would support changing the tax code so  corporations "pay as much on foreign profits as they do on profits made in ...
evidence_5: 6 days ago ... after adding many changes to secure support, senate republicans passed a  massive tax bill that would add more than $1 trillion to deficits. ... tax cuts are a  big gift to business. ... but the $1,000 increase won't be available to the lowest  income families if they don't end up owing federal income taxes.