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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...Say NO! The Internet Sales Tax is a Bad Tax, is Horrible Policy, is Hostile to Liberty, and Crushes Innovation
26. April 2013
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A tax that is so difficult to comply with, so convoluted and complex, that you have to exempt business selling under $1,000,000 from collecting and paying it is a BAD TAX and is BAD POLICY. Let your representatives know you oppose the online sales tax in its current form and that if they levy a tax, every company should have to collect it.
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...Heads Up! Prepare Yourself for the Employer Mandate Penalties in the Healthcare Law
7. June 2011
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The National Federation of Independent Businesses recently put out a primer for Small Business Owners that is worth your time so that you can start planning your risk mitigation strategies now. The businesses that face potential penalties are those with 50 or more full-timers or full-time equivalents (FTEs) as well as owners with multiple businesses […]
Continue reading...The Moocher Index Tracks the Non-Poor that Receive Government Income Transfers
22. June 2010
Dan Mitchell at the Cato Institute has put together a Moocher Index to track which states have the largest number of non-poor people receiving welfare. A few quick observations. Why is Vermont (by far) the state with the largest proportion of non-poor people signed up for welfare programs? I have no idea, but maybe this […]
Continue reading...So Why No Economic Recovery? Avaricious Government and Hesitant Entrepreneurs.
18. June 2010
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The Federal Government’s wasteful spending, institutional meddling, and taxpayer plundering is giving us hesitant entrepreneurs. Robust job growth requires boldness and risk-taking in the private sector. What we have now is boldness and risk-taking in the public sector. It is loading as much debt onto the balance sheet as possible, and creating the predicate for […]
Continue reading...Art Laffer on the Coming Tax-Induced Crash of 2011
16. June 2010
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Art Laffer recently published an opinion in the Wall Street Journal titled “Tax Hikes and the 2011 Economic Collapse” that is worth your time. Tax increases are coming. And it won’t be pretty. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that the nine states without an income tax are growing far faster and attracting more people than are […]
Continue reading...Public Employee Unions are Bad For Your Small Business
7. June 2010
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Public Employee Unions are bad for your local economy, bad for your small business, bad for your regulatory environment, and bad for your tax bill. Public employees are often good people who want to make a positive impact on the word, but their unions are destructive, and their union involvement is killing America. Taxpayers are saying […]
Continue reading...The New Tax – on *your* CO2
7. April 2010
(This post is, of course, tougue in cheek, but since the Obama Administration’s EPA recently declared CO2 (the stuff we exhale) to be a pollutant, is it really such a stretch?) Our current administration in Washington is seeking new ways to raise money for all the new entitlements they are creating. Almost everything is being […]
Continue reading...“Senate Health Bill Would Up Costs for Millions in Middle Class”
11. March 2010
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A non-partisan study finds that ObamaCare will raise taxes on the middle class, a direct violation of his campaign promise not to raise taxes on anyone making less that $250,000 per year. The Senate health care bill crucial to saving President Obama’s signature domestic initiative will hit the wallets of a quarter of all Americans […]
Continue reading...Global Warming isn’t a disaster – Cap and Trade, however, is.
3. November 2009
Global warming exists. So does global cooling. The real scare is the Congressional Cap and Trade scam based on sham science.
Continue reading...On snitching and incentives; How Obama’s cronies in Chicago encourage bad behavior
27. October 2009
Just saw this news story today. Obama’s cronies in Chicago to Pay for Informing on Tax Cheats You dirty rat. Chicago and Cook County residents aren’t the only ones about to get shocking tax news; the city is debuting a “tax whistle-blower” plan that could turn neighbor against neighbor in Chicago’s business community. The folks […]
Continue reading...Pelosi says new tax is on the table. Has a tax ever been “OFF the table” for Pelosi?
6. October 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...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 […]
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...The Government Health Care Plan is Sick – and It’s Bad for Small Business
20. July 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...Help Coworkers and Employees Understand the Perils of Burdensome Taxation
26. June 2009
“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 […]
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19. August 2013
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