by Meghan Raffa. As of April 1, the minimum wage in Seattle rose to $15. Small businesses have seven years to implement this change, while large companies must raise wages within the next two years. On one hand, it seems like a good thing that the government is mandating that low-income workers make enough money to help them meet ... MORE
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Seattle Raised Its Minimum Wage, Now This Is Happening
by Meghan Raffa. As of April 1, the minimum wage in Seattle rose to $15. Small businesses have seven years to implement this change, while large companies must raise wages within the next two years. On one hand, it seems like a good thing that the government is mandating that low-income workers make enough money to help them meet ... MORERick Moran: 175,000 Pages Of Federal Regulations
What "unfettered capitalism?" Whenever a liberal like Paul Krugman talks about the American system of “unfettered capitalism” I break out laughing. There are currently about 175,000 pages of federal regulations governing anything and everything about American business. In truth, many regulations have become necessary over the ... MOREFree Coffee To Cops Policy Burns Starbucks
No good deed goes unpunished. A Raleigh police officer who was given a free cup of coffee by Starbucks is now suing the company after he spilled it and got burned. In the lawsuit, Matthew Kohr, a lieutenant with RPD, said the lid popped off the cup of coffee he ordered at the Starbucks on Peace Street in January 2012 and the cup collapsed. ... MOREAmerican Families Are Being Economically Destroyed
by Michael Snyder. The systematic destruction of the American way of life is happening all around us, and yet most people have no idea what is happening. Once upon a time in America, if you were responsible and hard working you could get a good paying job that could support a middle class lifestyle for an entire family even if you only had a high ... MOREJohn Stossel: A Right To Discriminate
Bake me a cake, or go to jail! Sadly, that is the new message from "inclusive" America. If you don't want to cater, photograph, preside over, sell pizza at, sell flowers to or otherwise participate in a gay wedding, you will be punished. If you don't want your business to pay for a kind of birth control that you consider murder, you will pay fines until your ... MORE
Obamacare Is Really Expensive For Small Businesses
by J.D. Tuccille. Lousy news for the economy. "Complying with the health care law is costing small businesses thousands of dollars that they didn't have to spend before the new regulations went into effect," reports AP business writer Joyce M. Rosenberg. This should be a surprise to exactly nobody. In general, government mandates have poor track ... MOREMark Cuban Says Tech Bubble Is ‘Far Worse’ Than In 2000
Launching "into the giddy phase. "What a week for Mark Cuban. Fresh off being tapped for the role of the president alongside Ann Coulter in the upcoming blockbuster “Sharknado 3,” the brash billionaire’s bearish forecast has landed him a spot in MarketWatch’s call of the day. “If
we thought it was stupid to invest in public Internet websites that ... MORELuke Hilgemann: More Regulations Equals Less Business
Going into business gets tougher and tougher. The health of the American economy can easily be measured by the
health of American businesses — especially the rate at which people like
you and me start new ones. This simple metric shows whether the spirit
of innovation and entrepreneurship is alive in well in our country. It has been for ... MOREPedro Gonzales: How To Teach Kids About Socialism
Reality therapy for the young. It used to be that if you wanted to teach kids about capitalism, you’d tell them to open a lemonade stand. By producing a product, marketing it, and selling it, they would get a small taste of what it is like to run a business. But now telling your kids to open a lemonade stand is the best way of teaching them about ... MOREWashington State Growers Struggle To Sell Legal Marijuana
High taxes are driving many to black market. Washington's legal marijuana market opened last summer to a dearth of weed. Some stores periodically closed because they didn't have pot to sell. Prices were through the roof. Six months later, the equation has flipped, bringing serious growing pains to the new industry. A big harvest of ... MORE21,000 Regulations Under Obama, 2,375 More In 2015
Obama's regulation frenzy. The pace of agencies issuing new rules and regulations has hit a record high under President Obama, whose administration’s rules have filled 468,500 pages in the Federal Register. And, according to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the president is poised to unleash another 2,375 new rules on American ... MOREMeasure To Tax Internet Sales Is Dead For A Year
by Sean Higgins. Legislation to tax Internet sales is dead for the year, a key Senate aide said. No bill allowing the taxation will be taken up before Congress' lame-duck session ends, meaning that purchases made through online merchants such as Amazon will continue to be tax-free for the foreseeable future. A coalition made up of state and ... MOREA. Barton Hinkle: End State Monopolies On Liquor Sales
It's time to get the state out of the booze business. Virginia made a big mistake four years ago when it failed to end the state’s monopoly on liquor sales, and its residents are going to pay the price for that — again. So far in 2014 Virginia has hauled in 6 percent more revenue than it had by this point last year. But lawmakers had planned ... MORE
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