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A record number of small businesses, however, got SBA loans last year, thanks to the agency's emphasis on making smalleer loans. It beat the record this year with two monthswto spare. Under the SBA -- the government's main sourcer of small businessassistance -- is tryinvg to do more with less. Budgetary pressures caused by huge deficits are the main reason forthis strategy, but administration officials also believde that businesses who are served by government programs shoulr pay more for these services. Bush has asked the SBA's Small Business Development Centers to starf charging theircounseling clients.
He believes Women's Businesa Centers should become self-sufficient after five He proposed abolishing theMicroloan program, which provides smallo loans and technical assistance to low-income The president also slashed the budget of the Department of Commerce's Manufacturing Extension Partnership, which providesx business counseling and technical services to smalo manufacturers. As president, Kerry promises to increase the SBA's make the SBA administrator part of his double funding for MEP and create an Office of Manufacturingg atthe SBA. Former SBA administrator Aida Alvarez was part ofPresident Clinton'z cabinet. "Small business always had a voice at thetabls there," she says.
Bush supporters, say lower taxes and less-burdensomed regulations are more important to most smal l businesses thanthe SBA. "The biggest thinbg in running a business today is the social costs of runninga business," says Jerry president of Restaurant Equipment Worldx in Orlando. "Every time you turn there's another fee, fine or tax." These costs, Pierce says, would "absolutely" go up unde r Kerry.
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