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Slavery in America
Slavery in the United States was officially abolished by the Emancipation Proclamations of 1862 and 1863. That does not mean that there are not people still enslaved in our country. It is not necessarily the kind of slavery that most of us readily identify as such, but a slavery of the spirit. Our welfare system [...]
Continue reading...How thoughtful! Inheritor of Oscar Mayer fortune asks billionaires to petition government to increase taxes on many small businesses
15. September 2009
“Look, mister, there’s two kinds of dumb. A guy that gets naked and runs out in the snow and barks at the moon, and a guy who does the same thing in my living room. First one don’t matter, the second one you’re kinda forced to deal with.” – George from Hoosiers So, we just learned [...]
Continue reading...What is Big Government?
4. September 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Anatomy of a Trojan Horse: How Big Government Plans to Take Over Private Health Care and What We Can Learn From Arizona To Stop It
12. August 2009
Last week I attended a luncheon with some other small business people to hear the Arizona State Treasurer address Arizona’s private and public economic status. The Treasurer pulled no punches. The state legislature is deadlocked over the budget and barring either immediate spending cuts or an immediate tax increase the state is 30-60 days away [...]
Continue reading...Corruption and Big Government Go Together
29. July 2009
If you’ve been watching the news, you know that New Jersey has recently been embroiled (yet again) in local and state-level political corruption. The Wall Street Journal published a piece yesterday that ties this corruption in NJ to the cankering influence of Big Government programs and policies and also highlights the malaise the state is suffering [...]
Continue reading...“We are from the government and we are here to help you.”
23. June 2009
It’s very trendy amongst lovers of central power and big government (especially socialists and communists) to state that capitalistic free market economies cause the need for welfare programs. When we hear this from people, we have to be prepared to respond with logical correction. This wrongheaded thinking – that centralized state control “cures” welfare whereas capitalism [...]
Continue reading...Big Government, Corporate Cronyism, Welfare Dependency
19. June 2009
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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25. January 2010
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