Building Better Businesses

Obama speaks:

"I want to see our companies remain the most competitive in the world," Obama said at a White House announcement.

Sounds great. Then there's this:

Obama's plan would impose billions of dollars in new taxes on many of the nation's largest corporations, including Google, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Johnson & Johnson, tax experts said.

Taxes often act as a sedative -
but these, thank goodness, will make us competitive.