Small Business Against Big Government

Managed Care Scam

I am a doctor. I wanted to share the below which was first published in an online publication of a physician community, Sermo.  It is a rather accurate assessment of what has been the reality of health care in our country.  Physicians are being squeezed out of existence.  There is the spectre of a 21% [...]

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UPS’s Union-Backed War on Federal Express is a Danger to Small Businesses

If you’re a long time reader, you know that we often cite the United States Post Office’s war on USPS and UPS to highlight how Big Government is antithetical to free markets and prosperity. But recently, UPS has declared war on FedEx, in the form of Union-Driven rent seeking and the outcome of the war will [...]

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Cash For Clunkers is a Modern-Day Version of the Broken Window Fallacy

Cash For Clunkers is an economically unsound program that will only make the American economic situation worse.  It transfers wealth from one group of people to another while simultaneously destroying real wealth and misallocating scarce capital away from its best use. To understand why this is, you need only understand the Broken Window Fallacy.

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Big Government, Corporate Cronyism, Welfare Dependency

Chances are, if you are a small business owner or employee, your business does not get much business from welfare recipients.  Big business get more of the business from welfare recipients.  So, what’s going on is that you are paying taxes on your productive labor, that money is being handed to a person who is [...]

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