Can we treat all small businesses the same? Why or Why not?

Depends on what you define as small business, if you mean a mom and pop pharmaceutical store across the road that keeps the money within the family and has every member of the family working in the shop to create an infinite amount of revenue for themselves until they hit a profit, then sure. They contribute tax dollars to the community through supplying jobs and creating cheaper cost for locals, which gives incentive to buy more in bulk and thus creating more tax dollars. Unless you are talking about the man in the apartment building who makes home grade meals and sells them cheap to his community, then no. While he is contributing tax dollars all those dollars aren't going back into the community until he buys something with that money, and the people who spent that money just got  a tax free meal that 't go into the community didn't.

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the answer to this question would be shared investment

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