Obama's call for ‘fast-track' trade authority and cybersecurity receive accolades, but business groups cool on tax proposals President Barack Obama's push to give his office expanded "fast-track" negotiating authority on trade is a hit with association leaders. The same can't be said of his tax proposals. Associations issued an avalanche of responses following Obama's annual State of the Union Address Jan. 20. As usual for a speech packed with policy suggestions, groups found things to like and not like in what the president proposed. "Corporate-only tax reform is a nonstarter for small business," Todd McCracken, president of the National Small Business Association, said… Read More