By Brian Hamilton and Mary Ellen Biery It has been said that the worst problems are the ones you don’t see coming, and there is a significant problem brewing in D.C. that too few people seem to be paying attention to. At President’s Obama’s urging, the Department of Labor is amending regulations governing the “white […]
When we’ve watched our elected officials and pundits go hammer and tong over laws in recent years, the documents being debated have usually been hundreds or thousands of pages in length, like the Affordable Care Act or the recent net neutrality regulations. With those battles as a backdrop, it seems almost quaint that one of […]
I think that small business owners must sometimes feel like contestants in The Hunger Games, except that there’s never a winner. I say this because it seems like small business owners are always running around like crazy with a target on their backs. Consider mandatory paid sick leave. In the last couple of years and […]
I have a friend who occasionally jokes that if the United States wants to decrease poverty and encourage wealth creation, the government should use the same strategy it does when it wants to encourage a certain behavior and discourage another. For example, we give tax breaks to people willing to install solar energy in their […]