Showing posts with label business. Show all posts
Showing posts with label business. Show all posts
Small Restaurants Feel Pinch of Minimum Wage Hike
by Kevin Mooney. Bad news for mom and pop. As far as Rob Pluta is concerned, New Jersey lawmakers who say they want to help restaurant workers by raising the state’s minimum wage for tipped employees have it all wrong. If Trenton wants to help these workers, says Pluta, who owns and operates Leonardo’s II, an Italian eatery in Lawrenceville, it ... MOREJaana Woiceshyn: Business As A Moral Endeavor
The ones who make our lives better. When I tell people that I teach business ethics, I am often told that it is an oxymoron because business cannot be moral. That view is common, thanks to the wide acceptance of altruism as a moral code. The view is also mistaken, and we should be concerned because such a view hampers the ability ... MOREChef Emeril Lagasse Says Obama May Drive Him Broke
by Brian Preston. Government needs to kick it down a notch. Famed chef Emeril Lagasse says that it’s becoming all but impossible
to be a successful restaurateur in America today. The government just
gets in the way too much. Lagasse specifically singled out the current president’s policies. “It’s becoming a very challenging industry to become a ... MOREHans-Herman Hoppe: Ethics of Entrepreneurship and Profit
A saga of corrupted profits. In the most fundamental sense we are all, with each of our actions, always and invariably profit-seeking entrepreneurs. Whenever we act, we employ some physical means (things valued as goods) — at a minimum our body and its standing room, but in most cases also various other, “external” things — so as to divert ... MOREFederal Regulations Cost US Businesses $2 Trillion
by Chad Moutray. Choking out small business. Manufacturing leaders, like many other Americans, have been frustrated with the slow pace of growth so far this year, particularly in the first quarter. While manufacturers are mostly upbeat about demand and output over the coming months, they also remain somewhat tentative in their ... MORESally Pipes: Obamacare's Device Tax Grows More Devious
Business is not going well at the Internal Revenue Service. The agency projected that it would collect $1.2 billion between April and September of last year from Obamacare’s medical device tax, which went into effect at the beginning of 2013. But the tax take was just three-quarters of that. Implementing the tax has proven nightmarish. ... MOREBaylen Linnekin: Food Trucks Have Turned the Corner
Are we at the dawn of a new era for food trucks? Food truck cuisine has often been about pushing boundaries. Think Korean tacos. But how about a cannabis-infused food truck? Earlier this year,
NPR
reported on the THC-infused pulled-pork sandwiches cooked up by
a Denver food truck. Sound like a new era for food trucks? While cannabis ... MOREKatherine Mangu-Ward: Guy Who Tried To Shut Down Kid's Lemonade Stand Gets Taste Of Own Medicine. And It Sucks
Smothered by regulation. Remember Doug Wilkey, the grumpy Floridian who
tried to get a lemonade stand that was operating next door to his
house shut down by local authorites? Whelp, looks like he's
getting
a taste of his own medicine. A tipster contacted the city and pointed officials toward records that show Wilkey, as recently as March, ... MOREVIDEO: More Companies Closing Than Opening
Obamanomics: Crushing private enterprise with regulation.
Peter Schiff: Debt Is No Salvation
Credit is destroying what savings built. Thus far 2014 has been a fertile year for really stupid economic
ideas. But of all the half-baked doozies that have come down the pike
(the perils of “lowflation,” Thomas Piketty’s claims about capitalism
creating poverty, and President Obama’s “pay as you earn” solution to
student debt), an idea hatched ... MORE8 Ridiculous Laws That Stop People From Helping Others
by Nick Sibilla. No good deed goes unpunished. Dr. Elizabeth Gohl was a dentist in the U.S.
Navy for five years, where she performed hundreds of teeth extractions
on sailors. She left the Navy and moved to Arkansas, where she wanted to
extract teeth for free at a charity event. But the state said no. Even though she is a licensed dentist and an orthodontist, a bizarre law kept her from volunteering. Arkansas is just one of eight states that ban orthodontists from performing basic dental services, like cleaning or removing teeth. The law also ... MOREIRS Sets Sights on Frequent Flyer Miles, Hotel Points
by Ira Stoll. New method to separate citizens from their money. Just in time for your summer vacation, the IRS is getting ready to toughen the tax treatment on frequent flyer miles and hotel loyalty reward programs. The IRS announced in 2002
that it wouldn't try to go after individuals for income taxes on
frequent flyer miles or hotel ... MORE
Why Conservatives Shouldn't Boycott Chipotle
by David Harsanyi. For those of you who haven't heard, Chipotle Mexican Grill,
which for years allowed local laws to dictate policy for the
restaurant chain regarding open or concealed weapons, has decided
to "ask" customers not to bring firearms into its restaurants after
some zealous gun owners paraded around with "military-style assault ... MORE
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