Small Business Against Big Government

Small Businessman Candidate Kirk Adams Takes Big Government Lobbyist Matt Salmon to Task

This will leave a mark! Kirk Adams is a small businessman and supporter of SBABG’s mission.  He is running for Congress to represent Arizona’s 5th Congressional District.  We are excited to see him take on the entrenched Washington insiders.  We need more small businessmen to run for office! His opponent, Washington insider Matt Salmon, has been attempting [...]

SOPA and PIPA Explained

There has been a lot of attention given to two bills going through the US Senate  and House of Representatives. The Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) is being pushed through the House and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) is going through the Senate. Many executives at large corporations and other groups have been very outspoken [...]

What is 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 [...]

She Speaks for All of Us – Standing Ovation!

NFIB and Senator Kyl Unveil Small Business Health Relief Act to Repeal Costly ObamaCare Mandates

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 [...]

Government Doing What It Does Best – Waste Your Money and Make Your Life Harder

Main Street creates approximately 70 percent of all jobs, yet the White House consistently and constantly acts against Main Street’s interests, making life harder and harder for small business.  A recent Op-Ed published at associatedcontent.com highlighted this.  Some excerpts: Complexities in the code and a labyrinth of rules to obtain credits mean tax compliance costs are [...]

Heads Up! Prepare Yourself for the Employer Mandate Penalties in the Healthcare Law

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 [...]

Job Killing Health Care Bill

About a year ago, I submitted a suggestion to improve our health care delivery system and the financing of it.  In stead of a market driven system, we have forced upon us a government dictated system which will destroy health insurance companies and limit health care to Americans.  As I generate this submission, Congress is [...]

Why Congressional Earmarks Have to Go

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 [...]

To be against free markets is to be against freedom, choice, prosperity, and service

People who say they don’t want free markets, or who say they want to reduce or eliminate competition, are really just people who want to eliminate the virtues of service, freedom, prosperity and choice. Competition is a by-product.  It’s not something desirable in itself – it’s just what happens when other desirable things happen. Competition comes [...]

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 liability [...]

The Moocher Index Tracks the Non-Poor that Receive Government Income Transfers

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 [...]

So Why No Economic Recovery? Avaricious Government and Hesitant Entrepreneurs.

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 [...]

Great NFIB Report on how Obamacare Will Affect your Small Business

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 other Small [...]

Art Laffer on the Coming Tax-Induced Crash of 2011

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 [...]

Small Business Sentiment Slightly Up; However, Sales Volume and Profit Margins Stay Down

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 [...]

Obama Administration Laying Groundwork for Takeover of Internet. No Joke.

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 [...]

George Will Brings the Paddle Down on “Progressivism’s” Backside

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 a [...]

Public Employee Unions are Bad For Your Small Business

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 [...]

Guess Who is Stamping Out Health Care?

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 [...]

A New Look at Cash for Clunkers Confirms what Stimulus Programs do – Nothing (but Harm)

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 [...]