Small Business Against Big Government

We recently notified SBABG members from California about California Assembly Bill 962 which would require face-to-face sales of handgun ammunition in addition to providing the government your fingerprints, copy of ID, signature, residential address, telephone, and age in order to be able to purchase ammunition (full details at bottom of this entry*). The bill is […]

“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 […]

Turnout was huge.  Very inspiring to see that many people together in one place protesting against Big Government.  An SBABG member took some amazing photos on behalf of our group.  You can see them all here.  We met A LOT of small business owners there, and we met a whole lot of others who work […]

SBABG member Merek Davis of Boomshot Studios, who traveled to DC for the 9.12 March on Washington, took these beautiful photos and shared them with us.  All flags at half mast to commemorate 9.11.01. More here.

Steven Horwitz recently wrote a lucid and pithy piece for The Freeman called Profit: Not Just a Motive that you must read.  It is particularly timely because Big Government proponents have, as of late, been railing on “for-profit” institutions, attacking the “profit motive” and claiming that profit-seeking leads to delivery of poor service (of all […]

Language is the most powerful tool we have to expose and undermine Big Government.  It is also the most powerful tool Big Government has to crush Small Business. Over the last few weeks Congress and the Administration have been trying to call government takeover of health insurance and health care “competition”.  They have hijacked words […]

One way to provide universal health insurance coverage is to force people to buy it for themselves.  Another way to get it is to force employers to pay for their employees’ coverage.  Or, you could do both.  That’s what Massachusetts tried and that’s what the federal government wants to do. Seems that Massachusetts would be […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

Sir Francis Bacon said, “Knowledge is power.”  He was right.  Here are some books and other resources that have helped the founders of SBABG as we’ve fought (and continue to fight) the same battles you are fighting; we’ve included a little commentary about each book or resource, something we’ve learned.  Please share your favorite resources […]

We have argued that* the current health care plan is bad for small business and our country’s economic recovery.  Our future, especially our children’s financial future, in large part hinges on the defeat of the current proposal.  There needs to be health reform, but not this, not socialized care that hurts the US economy.  New […]

The American economy is resilient because the American people are resilient.  Our legal system – despite its flaws – rewards innovation, incentivizes invention, and by and large respects property rights.   Most of us have a freedom-loving nature and an entrepreneurial spirit.  Over the last 230 years our country has seen numerous recessions, several depressions, wars, […]

It just isn’t right, and we can stop it.  First off, it’s un-American.  There’s nothing helpful or redeeming about the plan.  And it’s bad – really bad – for small businesses.  Here are five reasons it’s sick – please share this information with co-workers and employees and contact your representatives; at the end of the […]

From Hot Air: New White House spin: Stimulus not designed to … stimulate ABC Reports today that White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said at a briefing Thursday, The $787 billion “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act” (AARA) was not designed for full economic recovery, but rather to “stabilize” the downturn.  That’s the word from White House […]

Note: The below is an updated take on a post I wrote and published this in early October 2008 under the title, “The Super Easy Guide to Understanding The Financial Crisis.” Stick with it. When you understand how the Federal Reserve hurts small businesses, you will understand why it is so important that we urge […]

Find out what’s in store for small businesses if the administration succeeds in it’s push to expand the powers of the Federal Reserve: We can stop this! Please take a few minutes to share this video and read the rest of the article for details & resources to take action. Shelly Roche ByteStyle.tv Please subscribe […]

Shelly Roche, founder of ByteStyle.tv and podcaster extraordinaire is partnering with us  to help cross-promote common efforts we are undertaking. Shelly will be posting here from time to time and inviting members of SBABG.org to take direct action to advance the cause of productive, free citizens against an ever-encroaching government. Please take a moment and […]

“The power to tax is the power to destroy.” – Supreme Court Justice John Marshall, 1819 Most people dislike taxes but see at least some level of tax as inevitable, even necessary.  Surely some of our dislike for taxes is driven by the fact that it’s human nature for us to want to keep more […]

Please visit the links below.  I’ve compiled several resources that will quickly get us all up to speed on the health care debate.  Many are from Cato The current Congress and Administration Proposal and its Problems What is Barack Obama’s Plan for Health Care Reform? (Cato) (be sure to check out the Questions for the […]

Watch the video.  The agenda is clear.  Now, what can we as small business owners and employees do about it? The Public Plan Deception – It’s Not About Choice Please subscribe to our RSS feed and our newsletter, and join our Facebook group.