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Small Business Spotlight: 11/15/12

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    How Washington decisions impact small businesses

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For our spotlight on small business when we talk to real small business owners about the challenges they're facing a tough economy.

I currently Jane -- is the managing partner -- heirloom book company in Charleston, South Carolina nice to have you on the program at -- You think you -- it's great cat talk a little bit about cookbooks right around Thanksgiving I and that is an eight iron to have your company tell us a little bit about.

What you do heirloom but bucks.

Well we -- -- bookshop and relocated.

In downtown Charleston, South Carolina.

And we -- new vintage and collectible cookbooks and has this is going.

Business is going -- and then and then vintage business we can barely keep up with -- fantastic you know it's interesting you you start your business and during.

I had when the economy was just emerging from the recession.

-- talk just a little bit about the challenge is to starting a new business at this time in the economy.

I think that there are always challenges to starting a business and when you start sending his specialized his.

But we decided to do with the cutbacks shop it's kind of either going to be a big -- -- big match and then luckily.

It looks like we've got spending that kind of -- it everyone talks about the fiscal cliff we certainly it's analog time talking about an hour program how they get a deal it is it to you as a small business owner.

About what happens in Washington DC and how you're making your plans for the year had.

-- I I don't really know how to answer it how we definitely pay attention to what's going on and and health care is obviously something that's on a lot of people's minds right now.

But.

You know we kind of meet the demand in the market and we're really fortunes have people coming in and coming out -- -- and certainly doing lots of online top thing.

Says that it's -- right now as far as the tax structure is not as much concern -- national health care -- do you do you have health care for the small business is that something you're.

You're looking to include for -- employees and what kind of a factor is that.

I mean it's sending we'd definitely like to grow into you being able to offer.

You kind of have your list of priorities of the small business -- Have things he'd like to achieve we've -- have been for about a year and nine months a year and ten months.

And so you know we had to have ourselves within two years to be -- Plaisted.

Offer health care -- tavern on cutting it had in the program thank you so much for the time.

Yes thank you -- Them.