Press release last month, but in case you missed it, have a read: WASHINGTON, D.C., Monday, May 23, 2011 — National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) president and CEO Dan Danner and small business owner Earl Hall joined U.S. Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) today to unveil a bill that will address some of the most […]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 7, 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...Thursday, January 20, 2011
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About a year ago, I submitted a suggestion to improve our health care delivery system and the financing of it. In stead of a market driven system, we have forced upon us a government dictated system which will destroy health insurance companies and limit health care to Americans. As I generate this submission, Congress is […]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 17, 2010
Comments Off on Great NFIB Report on how Obamacare Will Affect your Small Business
Too much great stuff to try and summarize here. Just read it. Full report available at this link (pdf). Also contains information on Cap and Tax and Labor Law changes being pursued. This Administration is BAD NEWS for Small Business. Get informed by reading the report. And then please share it with at least 5 […]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 1, 2010
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 […]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 25, 2010
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 […]
Continue reading...Sunday, March 21, 2010
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 […]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 11, 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...Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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 […]
Continue reading...Friday, March 5, 2010
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 […]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 2, 2009
What follows is excerpted from a letter from Stephen E. Frazer, MD, an anesthesiologist in Indianapolis, to Sen. Bayh. Clearly Dr. Frazer has too much time or insomnia to have read the entire House Bill to “reform health care” in our country. I have not included Dr. Frazer’s pleas to the senator, which will, no […]
Continue reading...Monday, November 9, 2009
Comments Off on One in Five House Democrats Voted Against PelosiCare
I don’t see the MSM talking about it, but this was clearly the most important takeaway from the PelosiCare vote. Not only was it not bi-partisan, it wasn’t even close to unanimous within the Democratic Party. Divisive. Toxic. Political Suicide. Nearly 20% of House Democrats refused to stand with Pelosi and Obama. Or did Pelosi […]
Continue reading...Friday, October 30, 2009
We’ve been having a lot of conversations with Small Business owners about how they will change their businesses if Congress passes their monstrous, prosperity-killing Health Care Bill. We are also small business owners and employees ourselves, and what is emerging from these conversations frightens us and should frighten all American workers. The consensus? “They can […]
Continue reading...Friday, October 30, 2009
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The following article is written by Doctor Barry Jacobs, a Medical Doctor and SBABG contributor from Texas. Dr. Jacobs is practicing and experienced Reproductive Endocrinologist who has served in many capacities over his long and distinguished career (full bio at end of article), All of us are concerned about what health care costs in this […]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 7, 2009
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...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...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...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...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...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 […]
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011
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