John Thune

Sen. John Thune, perhaps using the "phone a friend" option to find a mythical job-creator.


NPR wanted to talk to a millionaire small business person who would be hurt by the proposed millionaire's surtax as a pay-for in the Senate Democrats' proposal for extending the payroll tax cut. for help in finding those business owners.
They were unable to produce a single millionaire job creator for us to interview.

So we went to the business groups that have been lobbying against the surtax. Again, three days after putting in a request, none of them was able to find someone for us to talk to. A group called the Tax Relief Coalition said the problem was finding someone willing to talk about their personal taxes on national radio.

So next we put a query on Facebook. And several business owners who said they would be affected by the "millionaires surtax" responded.