I’m the founder of a technology startup and we are very close to getting venture capital funding so we can start hiring people into good paying jobs with good benefits and a future. I certainly hope Obama or anybody else for that matter does not get a chance to raise the capital gains tax as that will make it far more difficult if not impossible for us and other startup and growth-phase companies to get future rounds of funding. That is our greatest concern right now. Otherwise the economy seems to be poised to get on track for reasonable and sustainable growth in the mid-term. The availability of capital for growth is the fuel that fires the engine of economic prosperity. Here’s hoping the government doesn’t tax it out of existence.