The left isn’t anti-business, that is simply a FALSE talking point spread by the right to further their own cause. Its based upon the assumption that the left wants to raise taxes to the point where businesses will be unsuccessful, yet businesses have historically done better under left leaning presidents. For example, under Clinton (a left leaning dem who had higher taxes than under repubs) the economy grew by 23.1 million jobs. Meanwhile under Bush 2 (a right leaning president with huge tax cuts for the wealthy among others) the economy grew by 3.5 million jobs… then lost 8 million in his last 6 months. In fact Clinton created more jobs in his 8 years, than the combined 20 years of Reagen, Bush 1, and Bush 2.
Another good example is the 1950’s. Under presidents Truman and Eisenhower the highest tax bracket was in the NINETY PERCENT range, as in 90%, 9–0—%. Yet somehow the 50’s were the most economically booming decade in the history of our country, and still yielded eccentric millionaires such as Howard Hughes (the man who had so much money he built a boat to lift a Russian submarine off the floor of the Pacific ocean, for shits and giggles).
The belief that the left wants to raise taxes to the point of harming businesses is false. We simply want them to pay their fair share and help build the roads and take care of the very workers that make them so profitable. That and we don’t want them cheating us out of money or destroying our environment and things like that (but thats more into the regulation side of the argument).