Oct

30

Regulatory relief comes from strange places

October 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Now here’s a policy initiative I can get behind as a friend of microbusinesses.
Legislation introduced in the House and soon to be introduced in the Senate would require government bureaucrats to write their forms, instructions and other documents in plain English that most normal people can understand.
Senior citizens, veterans and taxpayers should be able to […]

Oct

29

Podcast: Panel Views Nonemployer Health Care Issues

October 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment

This has been a reasonably good week for microbusinesses, if you want to stop and think about it. Just consider:
- the Senate Finance Committee has finally noticed that 21.5 million nonemployers could be left out of reforms targeting access to health insurance unless somebody makes sure they don’t;
- new research out of the SBA Office […]

Oct

26

Don’t count ‘em if they don’t count

October 26, 2007 | 2 Comments

Steve King is posting about size standards over at the Small Biz Labs blog - a topic on which I am consulted with some regularity, especially when it comes to nonemployers (which is what the government really calls them, as opposed to “businesses without employees,” — sorry, Steve).
He does make a valid point about the […]

Oct

24

Politicians playing the media shell game

October 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Sometimes, one of the funnest parts of my job is to watch politicians play ‘Gotcha!’ with the media.
There is an article today in the Washington Post about the alternative minimum tax (AMT) and about Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s yelling at Congress for not fixing it yet.
Do you know why you should care about the Alternative […]

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