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Obamacare: Making Small Businesses Poorer

Obamacare: Making Small Businesses Poorer

As a small business owner, I knew it was coming. As a skeptic of any pronouncement by the White House relating to healthcare, I knew consumers and small businesses would get socked with higher rates. And as an employer that works with private health insurance providers, I knew they would be able to manipulate Obamacare to make even more money. It has all come to pass as I had feared.

Remember how private insurance companies were bemoaning that under Obamacare they ...

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Bamboozled by Obamacare

Bamboozled by Obamacare

As a small business owner, I knew it was coming. As a skeptic of any pronouncement by the White House relating to healthcare, I knew consumers and small businesses would get socked with higher rates. And as an employer who works with private health insurance providers, I knew they would be able to manipulate Obamacare to make even more money. It has all come to pass as I had feared.

Remember how private insurance companies were bemoaning that under Obamacare they ...

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Dockworkers Could Throw US off Another Cliff

Dockworkers Could Throw US off Another Cliff

Taking temporary measures to prevent tumbling off the fiscal cliff, extending the milk subsidy, delaying sequestration and partially extending the Bush tax cuts are examples of stopgap measures undertaken to prevent further economic damage.

However, the United States is involved in another stopgap negotiation that could wreak havoc on the economy that few in the media are talking about.

Although it received little attention, last Friday the International Longshoremen’s Association and the U.S. Maritime Alliance agreed to extend the terms of their ...

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US Energy Future Being Held Hostage

US Energy Future Being Held Hostage

After President Barack Obama won re-election, Benjamin Cole, a spokesman for the American Energy Alliance said: “I think what’s disappointing is that the policies that have seen gas prices rise and electricity rates skyrocket, and which basically worked to kill the coal industry — I think it’s disappointing that those policies will continue to be in place.”

I think Cole’s remarks should reflect the disappointment all Americans should feel about the war on coal. Fossil fuels are not going away no ...

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The Right to Work

The Right to Work

With Michigan becoming the 24th state to adopt a right-to-work law, the handwriting is on the wall: If you want to attract investment and create jobs, unions are a barrier not a benefit.

Understanding why Michigan chose the right-to-work path isn’t difficult to analyze when you consider the state has an unemployment rate of 9.1 percent. In Detroit, the state’s largest city, 34.5 percent of its citizens are on food stamps, 45.7 percent aren’t in the work force and 99,702 of ...

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