small businesses

    President Obama: ‘encouraging’/planning to tax into oblivion start-up businesses.

    By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  April 25th at 09:45 AM  | 

    Never mind the fact that Obama got yoghurt splashed on him last night – that’s just an ongoing hazard of being a politician running for re-election in this country. The real story here is this: the President went to Colorado to, essentially, lie to a bunch of kids about how they can get themselves out of this mess that they’re in. And it is a | Read More »

    Administration caught lying on insurance relief law.

    By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 20th at 09:44 AM  | 

    (via @amandacarpenter) Let us walk through a test case on the administration’s claimed insurance support for small business owners. Zach owns a small business (24 employees, average salary $35K) and provides them with health care ($79.2K/year). He has already seen a 15% increase in health care costs this year, so he is quite keen to hear about insurance relief. The White House’s PR flunkies were | Read More »

    White House’s ‘Blame Bush’ reflex embarrasses them, EPA.

    By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 18th at 10:30 PM  | 

    It goes like this (H/T & links via Ed Driscoll and OpenMarket.org). A memo from the EPA surfaced a while back that mentioned in passing that regulating greenhouse gasses to the extent desired by the most fervent global warming believers might have an adverse effect on the impious, too: In contrast, an endangerment finding under section 202 may not be not the most appropriate approach | Read More »