Senate Ready to Ditch Unproven but Sure-to-Fail Health Care Plan for Already-Failed Plan
These people are insane. Just. Insane: Some influential centrist Democrats in the Senate are warming to a compromise that envisions health-insurance plans run by state governments, and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger added his voice Tuesday to a small group of Republicans expressing support for a Democratic-led overhaul plan. Government-run health care schemes with most of […]
Continue reading...Pelosi says new tax is on the table. Has a tax ever been “OFF the table” for Pelosi?
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
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From The Hill: A new value-added tax (VAT) is “on the table” to help the U.S. address its fiscal liabilities, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Monday night. “I would say, Put everything on the table and subject it to the scrutiny that it deserves,” Pelosi told Rose when asked if the VAT has any […]
Continue reading...URGENT Call to Action – Must Act on Health Care, Today!
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
If your Senators are serving on the Senate Finance Committee, they need to hear from you today! The Senate Finance Committee is expected to vote within 48 hours on its draft of ObamaCare. The Senate version contains destructive Individual and Corporate Mandates, as well as a version of the competition-killing Public Option. Because this is […]
Continue reading...Is SBABG prophetic or are the White House and Congress just stupid?
Monday, October 5, 2009
On August 3rd we told you exactly what would happen with the Cash for Clunkers Program and why. Now economic data and the Wall Street Journal have confirmed our prophecy prediction. SBABG on August 3rd. Cash For Clunkers is an economically unsound program that will only make the American economic situation worse. It transfers wealth […]
Continue reading...Why ACORN Fell Like Dominoes (but Domino’s Didn’t) and How Its Fall Could Slow the Obama Agenda
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Domino’s Pizza and ACORN share something in common. Amateur film released on the Internet rocked the organizations and threatened their existence. The way each organization handled its respective crisis exposed a lot about the nature and character of the people who manage the organizations and helps us understand that, yes, ACORN deserves to disappear and […]
Continue reading...California Assembly Bill 962 Hurts Small Businesses and Puts Law-Abiding Citizens at Risk
Monday, September 28, 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...How thoughtful! Inheritor of Oscar Mayer fortune asks billionaires to petition government to increase taxes on many small businesses
Tuesday, September 15, 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 […]
Continue reading...SBABG’s photos from the HUGE 9.12 “March on Washington” in DC
Sunday, September 13, 2009
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 […]
Continue reading...9-11-2009 Washington DC Photos
Saturday, September 12, 2009
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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.
Continue reading...Big Government is Wrong about Profits and the Profit Motive
Thursday, August 27, 2009
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 […]
Continue reading...The Power of Language: How to expose BIG GOVERNMENT with our words
Wednesday, August 26, 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
Friday, August 21, 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
Wednesday, August 12, 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
Monday, August 3, 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
Wednesday, July 29, 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 […]
Continue reading...Knowledge is Power – 31 resources that make all the difference
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
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 […]
Continue reading...The Two Biggest, Fattest Lies In The Health Care Reform Debate
Friday, July 24, 2009
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 […]
Continue reading...Keep the faith: The economy WILL eventually improve, but it will be in spite of Big Government intervention
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
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, […]
Continue reading...The Government Health Care Plan is Sick – and It’s Bad for Small Business
Monday, July 20, 2009
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 […]
Continue reading...Historical Revisionism Alert! Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?
Thursday, July 16, 2009
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 […]
Continue reading...How the Federal Reserve hurts small businesses and what you can do to fix it
Thursday, July 16, 2009
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 […]
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
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