Archive for the 'Government' Category

If you’re wondering who died and left your local “planning commission” as God, you’re not alone. Thanks to the internet we get to see the whining and carping that goes on in these planning commissions who believe that they have such omnipotent power over people who want to make a living from their homes.
While it [...]

As usual, our politicians fiddle while Rome, in this case America, burns. Raising minimum wages in an era of expanding self employment where business owners are less likely to have employees anyway will increase the likelihood of the unskilled and underskilled finding any work and tend towards more unemployment.
From The Entrepreneurial Mind
We are in a [...]

People sell lots of information courses about “government grants”.
If you get one however, you’ll be subject to Federal Title VI regulations and are expected to have procedures in place to accomodate this legislation.
Basically it’s well intentioned… you are supposed to treat all people fairly.
But what does that mean to the government?
At a training session I [...]

I spent quite a bit of time tracking this information down yesterday on this opportunity where you can have your office at home but you have to go out and meet people… and my source was a bit “closed mouth”.
Still, I think there’s enough here to show you where to look for this opportunity if [...]

Though some people are just DYING to work from home, for many the option is as attractive as bringing home work from the office! Before you make the jump home, you need to decide… is it working at home I crave? Or just a change in my work conditions?
For example, this study showed that while [...]

Gerald Nehra comments on dangerous proposed changes in rules regarding the marketing of business opportunities. The potentially far reaching effects could keep people from learning about valuable opportunities in the name of protecting people not willing to assume their fair share of risk for legitimate opportunities.
FTC—WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?
by Gerald P. Nehra
Brief overview: The Federal [...]

Some people’s “business” is in the so-called “Non profit” sector so called.
Grants are a major source of income.
Grant writing can be a lucrative work at home business and compensation is usually a percentage of the revenues won (how that’s so when every penny is supposed to be accounted for by a tangible service shows me [...]

108 years ago to fund the Spanish American war, the US Government levied the Telegraph Tax. It’s been collected until recently though by all reports the war was over.
This came out a while back but still hasn’t gotten much play.
Beware those temporary taxes. They stay around forever.
You can get a refund with interest… if you [...]

A while back I posted about opportunities for home based pharmaceutical reps.
This particular option may or may not be available still but there may be a growing NEED for it in rural areas where health practitioners may be able to stay in business but there may be fewer options for getting the prescriptions.
Why? The new [...]

The Telework Coalition is trying to mobilize support for a federal Telecommuter Tax Fairness Act.
The act stems from state laws in New York that tax non resident telecommuters at New York in state rates even when they don’t reside there.
You can sign a petition supporting the Telecommuter Tax Fairness act here…