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Suggest questionWith the election only two weeks away, John Arensmeyer, founder and CEO of Small Business Majority, talks through what’s at stake for small businesses, including what the campaigns are saying about taxes, regulation, immigration, tariffs, and manufacturing. Plus: Given the likelihood that, regardless of who wins the White House, a closely divided federal government is likely to be with us for some time, Arensmeyer also explains what small businesses can hope for at the state and local levels.
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The proponents of employee stock ownership plans can make them sound like the greatest thing ever. A business owner can take a big chunk of money off the table—or even all of it—while still getting to run the business. And there are some pretty great tax breaks. Oh, and it will also solve income inequality in America. On the other hand, if ESOPs are so smart, why are there so few of them?
Jim Kalb of Triad Components Group in San Diego and Jeff Taylor of Crafts Technology in Chicago have both implemented ESOPs. Jay Goltz of the Goltz Group in Chicago has reached his 60s without a succession plan, and he’s considering his options. In this 21 Hats Conversation, you get to listen in on a street-smart discussion of the pluses and minuses of ESOPs from the business owner’s point of view.