the majority of them are organized as pass-thru corporations, l.l.c.'s, "s" corps, partnerships, and the like. and those business owners pay taxes at the ordinary income rate-- not the corporate rate which was unaffected by this deal. >> a lot of small business owners, in particular, pay the upper income tax rates. so if you boost the tax rates on them they can spend less money on things like employees, for example. >> reporter: the new fiscal agreement will probably have little impact on firms that are committed to hiring this year, but simply waiting for certainty on tax policy before finalizing their plans. so, consumer and business spending is not likely to improve dramatically in the first six months of the year. most economists think thev?p recovery will continue to muddle along at a roughly 2% growth rate. erika miller, "n.b.r.," new york. >> susie: so, tom, we kick off 2013, not only with a stock market rally, but also the first merger deal or acquisition of the deal. with avis, which is buying zipcar, paying about a half billion dollars, works

called arnold and porter l.l.c. that's been defending music really government since one thousand nine hundred sixty seven and so they're getting slaughtered in court right now trying to get some compensation for the damage done to their community and this is parks township and apollo two point towns in pennsylvania why did it take so long for i mean that town has been suffering for so long a way it seems like this should already happened by now well radiation poisoning relates and so what's been happening apollo is that they've been trying to get compensation but they haven't been tackling the core issue of why this organization was ever put into their midst in the first place and so until we finally cast away strategic ambiguity and the u.s. government stops holding on to documents that could allow them to really prevail in court they're probably not going to be able to go up against israel's best lawyers and actually get damage claims for wrongful death well that's what i think the most . infuriating aspect of thi

the majority of them are organized as pass-thru corporations l.l.c.'s, "s" corps, partnerships, and the like. and those business owners pay taxes at the ordinary income rate-- not the corporate rate which was unaffected by this deal. >> a lot of small business owners, in particular, pay the upper income tax rates. so if you boost the tax rates on them they can spend less money on things like employees, for example. >> reporter: the new fiscal agreement will probably have little impact on firms that are committed to hiring this year, but simply waiting for certainty on tax policy before finalizing their plans. so, consumer and business spending is not likely to improve dramatically in the first six months of the year. most economists think thev?p recovery will continue to muddle along at a roughly 2% growth rate. erika miller, "n.b.r.," new york. >> susie: so, tom, we kick off 2013, not only with a stock market rally, but also the first merger deal or acquisition of the deal. with avis, which is buying zipcar, paying about a half billion dollars works o