Obamacare Heads to Court This Week

While the new Congress deliberates over ways to repeal or defund the Obama Administration’s “healthcare reform” law, twenty states and the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), have filed suit in federal court arguing that the law is unconstitutional and should be struck down immediately. This is the largest of several legal challenges to Obamacare [...]

Blackburn, Issa and Roskam: Job Creators vs. ObamaCare

By Reps. Marsha Blackburn, Darrell Issa and Peter Roskam:
Last January, President Obama declared, “Jobs must be our number one focus in 2010.”

Since that time, more than 2.5 million Americans have lost their jobs and unemployment stands at 9.6%. Some focus. The President and his Democrat allies in Congress instead chose to unleash a torrent [...]

Will the ‘Ruling Class Right’ Rescue Vulnerable Dems?

Maryland’s tight congressional race between Andy Harris and Frank Kratovil pits free-market constitutionalists against false friends in special-interest groups. At stake: the balance of power in the House.

Democrat Policies Are Undermining Business Confidence

That sound you hear is the White House’s credibility bubble bursting. CBS reported last week that 74 percent of Americans believe the Obama stimulus either damaged the economy or had no effect.

The wisdom of the crowd turns out to be true.
The White House boasts that the $862 billion Stimulus is performing like a well-oiled machine, [...]

Health Care Fail: Promised Tax Credit for Small Business Almost Impossible to Get

Ways and Means Ranking Republican Dave Camp (R-MI) and Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Wally Herger (R-CA) today released a new road map that shows America’s small businesses and their employees how to calculate the so-called small business health care tax credit.

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As the navigation tool shows, employers face a dizzying array of questions and formulas before [...]

Ohioans Want Economic Recovery, Not the President’s Job-Killing Agenda

President Obama is coming to Youngstown today to tout his administration’s recovery efforts, but its policies are only making matters worse in the Mahoning Valley.
While it’s encouraging that the factory in Youngstown that the president will visit on Tuesday has recently expanded, the city’s painfully high 15.1 percent unemployment rate is a harsh reminder that [...]

Small Businesses Sue Government Goliath

A small business association called the American Small Business League (ASBL) did something unexpected this week.  ASBL President, Lloyd Chapman, decided to take the Obama Administration to court and expose the growing divergence between the Administration’s stated goals to meet the federal statutes for small business participation versus the Obama Administration’s total failure on federal, [...]

Hacking the Minimum Wage

In a recent post, I posited unemployment insurance should be reformed to offset the minimum wage for new small businesses hires.  Please continue in comments to help me brainstorm.

This is a “free stimulus,” because it uses current unemployment payments to actually create new jobs.  No tax cuts.  No deficit spending.   No new government program.  And [...]

Repeat After Me: Tax Credit for Employers is a Dumb Idea When These Guys Have No Customers

The definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect different outcomes.  The different versions of the jobs bills circulating in Washington DC these days are perfect example of that point.

See for instance, the  jobs tax credit for hiring new workers idea. What a brilliant example of bipartisan [...]