Small Business Against Big Government

I just received this article from the Ludwig von Mises Institute and wanted to share it.  Some may applaud Holder’s actions, but think of the consequences.  You know that artificial price ceilings create shortages.  What happens when physicians are not paid enough for their services to cover the cost of providing those services?  Already Medicare […]

From the Coyote Blog, see the graph below.  Stimulus funds just create purchases now that will be forgone later.  And they subsidize the purchases with tax funds or debt, basically transferring funds from one person to another for no good reason (other than buying votes, of course). The dotted line simply averages the sales for […]

Human beings can have a high standard of living when their needs get met.  In a marketplace, needs get met best when a few conditions occur. 1) the person who has the need is able to communicate that need to someone who can provide for that need. 2) the person who has the means to […]

If America is to return to greatness, it will be on the backs of its small businesses.  Not just because we’re the most important job creators in the country, but because we’re also the most trusted group in America. Be proud, small-business owners! You’re now the most trusted group in America. Listen up, federal government! […]

Big Business always gets bigger when Big Government grows – because Big Government needs Big Business.   Big Business also loves Big Government – its over-regulation kills off smaller competitors.  They are symbiotic.  The “health” of one ensures the “health” of the other. Tim Carney’s book Obamanomics does a great job spelling out how and why. […]

(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 […]

It’s important to look past the minutiae of the bill, and straight to the overall economics of the thing.  Let’s look past what it means for healthcare and straight to what it means for the economics of a small firm. 1.  ObamaCare means a harder economic climate for Small Businesses At core ObamaCare is a […]

Not to toot our own horn, but, toot toot. Graph from the American Thinker, Care Sales ($millions) Reported by Dealers.: Cost to taxpayers for each extra car sold because of Cash for Clunkers:  $20,000 Number of clunkers turned in (and taken out of the market):  677,081 Price increase for used cars since CfC:  13.7% Change […]

This post will be short, but we wanted to get something up tonight.  It’s been a disappointing day, but while some are despairing we are not.  The odds of overcoming a super-majority in the senate, a massive majority in the house, and a president elected by a large margin were always very steep.  But the […]

I am a doctor. I wanted to share the below which was first published in an online publication of a physician community, Sermo.  It is a rather accurate assessment of what has been the reality of health care in our country.  Physicians are being squeezed out of existence.  There is the spectre of a 21% […]

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 […]

The AP reported this week that: [A] new provision in the health care bill will require businesses to count part-time workers when calculating penalties for failing to provide coverage. As we warned in in October of last year measures such as these hurt small businesses and part-time workers (particularly students, working mothers, and people who […]

At his recent health care press conference President Obama told some real whoppers.  Among others, he said that his proposal “would bring down the cost of health care for millions—families, businesses and the federal government” and then added that it was “fully paid for.”  And not only that, but it would bring down the deficit […]

We are being coerced into an electronic medical records system, which the Government will “keep safe” for us and allow access to physicians treating patients.  We are to accept the assertion that the data base will be secure and that our most private medical information will never fall into the wrong hands.  Certainly the ability […]

I am sharing this discussion which was sent to me.  It is a retelling of a history of disaster.  I also remember the warning that whoever does not learn from history is destined to relive it. Read below to the end. Learn what really happened. It can and will unless we vote out the people […]

I remember my first car.  It was an old Renault Dauphine.  It was a real piece of junk.  But it was MY piece of junk.  I had worked for it.  I saved the money I earned from my after school job and paid for it myself.  No one bought it for me.  I did the […]

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 […]

Why does the world dislike the United States?  We saved France in World War I.  We saved Europe in World War II.  We rebuilt Europe after WWII.  We rebuilt Japan after WWII.  We saved South Korea and rebuilt it.  We send supplies, rescuers, and money to every natural disaster in the world, even to our […]

We’ve worked hard to slow down the passage of the Health Economy Takeover, and we must do more. (Scroll down for the URGENT ACTION ITEMS.) US News & World Report is reporting that Democratic Leaders are planning secret health reform deliberations. Despite their claims to the contrary, the way that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and […]

Judas got 30 pieces of silver. Esau got a mess of pottage. Benedict Arnold offered to sell out his countrymen for cash. And now joining the long line of the imbecile pansy squishes is Big Ben Nelson. And for what did he sell his soul? Medicaid subsidies for Nebraska … all paid for by the […]

This is a marvelous season of both joy, and, for some, unhappiness over loss, or the perceived loss of what never materialized.  I see this in too many of my patients.  Never the less, it is a season of love.  Love takes so many forms. There is the love of friends who help enrich our […]