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What is Big Government?
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
Monday, June 13, 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...The Moocher Index Tracks the Non-Poor that Receive Government Income Transfers
Tuesday, June 22, 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...The New Tax – on *your* CO2
Wednesday, April 7, 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...Global Warming isn’t a disaster – Cap and Trade, however, is.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Global warming exists. So does global cooling. The real scare is the Congressional Cap and Trade scam based on sham science.
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...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...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...Help Coworkers and Employees Understand the Perils of Burdensome Taxation
Friday, June 26, 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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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
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