Small Business Against Big Government

Big Government shouldn’t be confused with Government proper.  Government proper, limited in its power and scope to only those tasks which legitimately protect life, liberty, and property from fraud and criminality, is not Big Government.  It is the foundation of a free civilization.

Here are some definitions of Big Government from a few online dictionaries.
“Government perceived [...]

Press release last month, but in case you missed it, have a read:
WASHINGTON, D.C., Monday, May 23, 2011 — National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) president and CEO Dan Danner and small business owner Earl Hall joined U.S. Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) today to unveil a bill that will address some of the most costly [...]

The National Federation of Independent Businesses recently put out a primer for Small Business Owners that is worth your time so that you can start planning your risk mitigation strategies now.
The businesses that face potential penalties are those with 50 or more full-timers or full-time equivalents (FTEs) as well as owners with multiple businesses totaling [...]

Over at the Legal Insurrection blog (a wonderful blog that we’d suggest you read regularly) a poster suggests that people who oppose earmarks are “Sweating the Small Stuff“, writing:
On one hand, the whole notion of earmarks and pork barrel spending encourages many impractical pet projects from doofy legislators. To see their ban would [...]

The BP Oil Spill prompted brilliant libertarian legal theorist Richard Epstein to remind us that the problem isn’t regulation, it’s government limits on liability (see op-ed at the Wall Street Journal).  Big Business doesn’t mind regulation, as long as it can put caps on it’s liabilities (see “Too Big to Fail” … )
A tough liability [...]

The Federal Government’s wasteful spending, institutional meddling, and taxpayer plundering is giving us hesitant entrepreneurs.

Robust job growth requires boldness and risk-taking in the private sector. What we have now is boldness and risk-taking in the public sector. It is loading as much debt onto the balance sheet as possible, and creating the [...]

Art Laffer recently published an opinion in the Wall Street Journal titled “Tax Hikes and the 2011 Economic Collapse” that is worth your time.  Tax increases are coming.  And it won’t be pretty.
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that the nine states without an income tax are growing far faster and attracting more people than are [...]

President Obama and his FCC chairman Julius Genachowski couldn’t take over the Internet the first time they tried.  Ever since the DC Court of Appeals stopped them the first time they tried to take it (they said it was not the province of the Executive, but the Legislature, to determine whether [...]

Public Employee Unions are bad for your local economy, bad for your small business, bad for your regulatory environment, and bad for your tax bill.  Public employees are often good people who want to make a positive impact on the word, but their unions are destructive, and their union involvement is killing [...]

From the Coyote Blog, see the graph below.  Stimulus funds just create purchases now that will be forgone later.  And they subsidize the purchases with tax funds or debt, basically transferring funds from one person to another for no good reason (other than buying votes, of course).
The dotted line simply averages the sales for the [...]