Archive for the 'Government' Category

Because Broadband Access = More Home Businesses, I like to watch trends regarding broadband accessibility. Nationwide municipalities wanted to offer “free wi-fi”. In a world where There’s No Such Thing As A Free Lunch I always wonder how they plan to do this.
Short version: the private company couldn’t see how they were going to make [...]

Currently residents in Sioux Falls, SD who have a small business in their home can’t - by law - even use their garage or an outside storage building for business purposes!
“Officials” say the reasons are “obvious” … at least to communist dictators and control freak bureaucrats everywhere. Supposedly it was designed to stop a [...]

I mentioned this topic the other day here.
Of course, this along with layoffs are reasons people seek business opportunities. It’s been that way since the Great Depression!
Speaking of which, maybe we should call this the Slow Silent Crash, the kinder, friendlier form of a Great Depression.
Unlike the Great Depression, we have mechanisms in place to [...]

Have you ever wondered why government “statistics” keep saying that inflation is “low” when everything from food to gas to rent to utilities continues to march upward?
As Mark Twain once said, there are “lies, D*** lies, and statistics”.
The website Shadow Government Statistics helps sort painful economic fact from politically correct fiction. It’s a bit too [...]

This is from the Poland Employment Law Newsletter in case you’re planning to hire a Polish telecommuter. What? You weren’t? Sorry.
But should you ever PLAN to, realize that teleworking is spreading into the former eastern bloc countries. As in the west, employers seemed to favor it to help reduce overhead costs. This law [...]

I was amazed at these home business statistics coming from the UK! Can you believe that a whopping 60% of their new businesses are started at home?!!!  Here’s the problem with entrepreneurship though. Governments WANT new jobs and economic productivity as long as it can be regulated and taxed and provide photo ops to get [...]

It would be one thing if your home based web business were Google, but this is ridiculous - the business is run on the kitchen table (or wherever) from a lap top by a widowed mom trying to spend more time with her son so she didn’t have to work 80 hours per week and [...]

Jeff Cornwall has linked to this data from the Tax Foundation showing how states compare regarding state business  tax climates.
Where does your state rank?
Hint - If you’re not in Wyoming, you’re not in the top state!

Though there was widespread support for a permanent ban on “internet access taxes” the House only approved a 4 year moratorium. Oh well, that’s one less tax for four years.

Our representatives want us to believe that they’re “pro business” and that they want people to have “health insurance” but in reality, but they can’t do the simplest thing to erase an inequity in the tax code to accomplish that.
The Buffalo Business Journal is reporting that sole proprietors could save around $1,800 a year if [...]