Archive | June, 2010
Yes, Big Business Is Over-Regulated, But It’s Also “Under”-Accountable and “Under”-Responsible
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 […]
Continue reading...The Moocher Index Tracks the Non-Poor that Receive Government Income Transfers
22. June 2010
Dan Mitchell at the Cato Institute has put together a Moocher Index to track which states have the largest number of non-poor people receiving welfare. A few quick observations. Why is Vermont (by far) the state with the largest proportion of non-poor people signed up for welfare programs? I have no idea, but maybe this […]
Continue reading...So Why No Economic Recovery? Avaricious Government and Hesitant Entrepreneurs.
18. June 2010
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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 predicate for […]
Continue reading...Great NFIB Report on how Obamacare Will Affect your Small Business
17. June 2010
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Too much great stuff to try and summarize here. Just read it. Full report available at this link (pdf). Also contains information on Cap and Tax and Labor Law changes being pursued. This Administration is BAD NEWS for Small Business. Get informed by reading the report. And then please share it with at least 5 […]
Continue reading...Art Laffer on the Coming Tax-Induced Crash of 2011
16. June 2010
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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 […]
Continue reading...Small Business Sentiment Slightly Up; However, Sales Volume and Profit Margins Stay Down
15. June 2010
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A recent NFIB survey finds small business sentiment slightly improving, but also that most small businesses are losing sales and giving up profit margin to stay alive. U.S. small businesses are slightly more optimistic about their economic outlook than they have been in the last two years but are still not ready to expand staffs […]
Continue reading...Obama Administration Laying Groundwork for Takeover of Internet. No Joke.
14. June 2010
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 or not the FCC […]
Continue reading...George Will Brings the Paddle Down on “Progressivism’s” Backside
11. June 2010
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If you only read on thing this month, make it this article. Liberalism is, at heart, an impossible promise. A promise that in aggregate the peoples of the world can consume more than they produce, that there is “such thing as a free lunch”. Its ideal – the welfare state – is just as big […]
Continue reading...Public Employee Unions are Bad For Your Small Business
7. June 2010
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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 America. Taxpayers are saying […]
Continue reading...Guess Who is Stamping Out Health Care?
5. June 2010
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I just received this article from the Ludwig von Mises Institute and wanted to share it. Some may applaud Holder’s actions, but think of the consequences. You know that artificial price ceilings create shortages. What happens when physicians are not paid enough for their services to cover the cost of providing those services? Already Medicare […]
Continue reading...A New Look at Cash for Clunkers Confirms what Stimulus Programs do – Nothing (but Harm)
2. June 2010
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 […]
Continue reading...Health Care Reform Bill Buries Small Businesses in a Deluge of Paperwork
1. June 2010
Human beings can have a high standard of living when their needs get met. In a marketplace, needs get met best when a few conditions occur. 1) the person who has the need is able to communicate that need to someone who can provide for that need. 2) the person who has the means to […]
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23. June 2010
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