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The Marketplace Fairness Act is a Tax Increase and America hates it
Proponents of the Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA) say that it’s not a tax increase, but merely a change in who collects an existing tax. That’s inaccurate. It is both a change in who collects a tax as well as a tax increase. A few questions for proponents of the MFA. 1. Will the MFA take […]
Continue reading...SOPA and PIPA Explained
18. January 2012
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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 […]
Continue reading...What is Big Government?
13. December 2011
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. […]
Continue reading...Government Doing What It Does Best – Waste Your Money and Make Your Life Harder
13. June 2011
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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 […]
Continue reading...Why Congressional Earmarks Have to Go
23. November 2010
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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 send […]
Continue reading...The Six-Step Recipe for Cooking Big Government
7. December 2009
Michael Cloud, in his wonderful book Secrets of Libertarian Persuasion, teaches a “Six-Step Recipe for Cooking Big Government.” The six steps are a pattern to follow when talking with others about a proposed Big Government program. The steps are predicated on helping others who naively support Big Government programs see that these Big Government programs […]
Continue reading...California Assembly Bill 962 Hurts Small Businesses and Puts Law-Abiding Citizens at Risk
28. September 2009
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 […]
Continue reading...The Power of Language: How to expose BIG GOVERNMENT with our words
26. August 2009
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 […]
Continue reading...This is Gonna Hurt: The Pain of Mandatory Health Insurance
21. August 2009
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 […]
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...Cash For Clunkers is a Modern-Day Version of the Broken Window Fallacy
3. August 2009
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.
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 […]
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19. August 2013
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