Will the tax cuts help small business to a degree worth doing it?

those cuts are specifically designed to benefit only wealthy businesses and individuals. not one of the tax provisions will positively impact either the middle-class, or the low-income stratas of the population, the two most heavily affected by the current home mortgage crisis.

This tax cut is not scored, we have 500 billion dollar deficit and an election in 30 days.

This is BS to add this now and I hope the House strips it out.

Let's do REAL tax changes in the next Congress. We need a new 100 days of bold leadership starting on January 20.

Right now we need to solve a credit crisis and a mortgage crisis.

And the 30-something neighbors paid an outrageous price, while paying almost nothing down, that already raised all of our property taxes.  

Then they went to the city with a lawyer and got the assessed value lowered way below what they bought it for, while the rest of us still are at the inflated assessed values because of them.

And the young homeowners bought every bright shiny toy for the house and yard that I've ever seen, from a firepit to a trampoline to you would not believe all that litters their grown-up playground.  Except they forgot to buy a shovel so didn't bother clearing their walk all winter, so that I couldn't walk to work, as their walk turned to sheer ice.  And many oldsters in the 'hood had to stop taking their walks up and down the block, too.

Most Americans are against the bailout because they rightly see a scam.  No doubt there are legitimate reasons to restore confidence in the market but the bailout plan intends to make lemonade out of lemons for Wall Street.  During the depression of the 1930's the US government under FDR established the HOLC (Home Owners Loan Program).The HOLC bought up outstanding mortgages and issued new, more affordable loans that helped people stay in their homes, According to Hillary Clinton and echoed by Barney Frank ``We need a modern day Home Owners' Loan Corporation. There will not be any semblance of a normal or orderly market without 'quarantining'' the devalued loans" she said.  Additionally, she noted, the program eventually turned a profit.
It is sad to see so many economists on your business pages arguing about what the value of these loans are and how best to buy them and transform them into new saleable mortgages.  With shaky financial conditions and unemployment rising, one wonders where the market will be.  Why not try what worked stunningly well once  and stop the downward spiral of real estate at its source.  Why is everything old so passé?