Archive for the 'Government' Category

The National Federation of Independent Business (nfib.com) is organizing small businesses to meet lawmakers and tell their stories so that the politicians will not enact business unfriendly regulation.
To that end, they offer a free Grassroots Activism Manual
Don’t like the returns this election day and what they portend for your business?
Download this manual!

Why do politicians TAX us April 15th and beg for our vote in November?
So there’s time to forget!
Here a writer in the National Review suggests making our taxes due the same day we vote.
This isn’t a new idea, I first heard it promoted by Gary North but maybe this time it will catch on since [...]

Forbes Small Business released rankings from the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council about the survival rates of small businesses in various states.
The report which is 40 pages listed the best and worst states for small business based on tax rates and government policies (meddling). Actually it was based on 29 criteria, including tax rates on [...]

Dear Virginia,
After writing you to say “Yes, Virginia there IS a Santa Claus,” I would now like to write you and tell you there are also many “Grinches”.
You probably have been taught in school that wealth goes along with Capitalism.
But sadly, Virginia, this is not the case.
Capitalism is about serving the most people, in the [...]

Laws to license various occupations are always created in the name of “protecting the public”. That doesn’t stop bad doctors from malpractice, bad lawyers from shoddy work, or bad accountants from missing tax deductions you’re eligible for.
But it does insure that the bad ones can still make good money as long as their failures remain concealed from popular knowledge.
Seeing [...]

Elaine Chao the Secretary for Labor told G. Gordon Liddy’s audience today her belief about the preponderance of “outsourcing” to cheap labor markets.
Is it simply because of cheap labor?
No.
In fact, she sited that the “cheap labor” was offset by additional costs of adapting to foreign languages and cultures.
The productivity of the American workforce is unequalled [...]

This has nothing to do with home business - directly.But it is about our Government’s approach to things which strangles business and assumes that as long as a politician is able to skim money off the project, something is getting done.
I suggest you read this Wall Street Journal commentary on Katrina. While the mainstream media [...]

Was your business affected by Hurricane Katrina? This may be of help to you…
IRS Announces Additional Postponement of Filing and Payment Deadline for Businesses in the Gulf Coast
WASHINGTON — As part of the continuing effort to assist victims of Hurricane Katrina, the Internal Revenue Service will grant to businesses in the Gulf Coast an additional [...]

Large network marketing organizations tend to be diligent about collecting sales tax.
If yours is not, problems may lie ahead.
From Jim Richmond Professional Tax Services taxman_jr@yahoo.com via www.mlmatty.com…
One of the more perplexing questions facing direct selling companies today is the administration of state and local sales taxes. The general rule of law places the responsibility to [...]

A German blogger scanning “Google Earth” for satellite images that would tweak his curiousity unconvered a Chinese military secret… a scale model of it’s border with India, the scene of a border war in 1962.
A preparation for war?
Be careful when you’re surfing.
Your “find” may make you famous … or infamous.
Another sign that the blogosphere is [...]