Post Tagged with: “free market”

PayPal’s Pro-Homosexual Hypocrisy

PayPal’s Pro-Homosexual Hypocrisy

PayPal’s animus toward North Carolina’s bathroom bill is interesting considering that PayPal has no trouble doing business with more than 25 countries where homosexual behavior is illegal including five where the penalty is death. Yet, they object to the North Carolina legislature overturning a misguided ordinance about letting men into the women’s bathroom?

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The Terrible Cost of Govt Minimum Wage Increases

The Terrible Cost of Govt Minimum Wage Increases

This video from Heritage shows the human (and economic) cost of government-mandated minimum wage increase laws. The government doesn’t just wave a wand and new, free money appears out of the sky to give to people. Somebody has to pay for that. It gets paid for by the business owners who put their own property on the line to create and run that business (and usually work harder than any line worker to keep that business going), and it gets paid for by the consumer.

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The Ride of the Midnight Regulations

The Ride of the Midnight Regulations

The national nightmare that is the Obama administration will soon be over, and the people who made it a nightmare still have pens and phones. From Executive Amnesty to the ad-hoc to the Obama’s administration’s effort to stifle energy exploration and usage, regulatory overreach has been the hallmark of the Obama administration.

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ObamaNet: Your New Taxpayer-Funded Broadband ‘Right’

ObamaNet: Your New Taxpayer-Funded Broadband ‘Right’

The Federal Communications Commission just created Obamanet by providing a $9.25 subsidy for millions deemed to be in need of broadband Internet service.

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SD AG Explanation on Finance Charge Ballot Measure

SD AG Explanation on Finance Charge Ballot Measure

South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announced today that the South Dakota Supreme Court has upheld the Attorney General ballot explanation for Initiated Measure 21, which sets a limit of 36% as the maximum that certain money lenders are permitted to charge on loans.

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American Socialism: Tried and Failed, Like Usual

American Socialism: Tried and Failed, Like Usual

As history professor Larry Schweikart of the University of Dayton shares in this video from Prager University, we tried socialism back at the very beginning of the American nation. It failed as abysmally back then as it does today.

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How to Stop Jobs from Going Overseas

How to Stop Jobs from Going Overseas

How should policymakers stop the bleeding of American jobs overseas? There’s one easy answer among many harder ones, and that is to stop making it so expensive to do business in the United States. Many things price American workers out of competition, whether it be the current mix of trade rules, currency manipulation and other unfair labor practices but the easiest to address domestically is the corporate tax rate. Government’s unwillingness to do with less is making it considerably harder for Americans to even work. Seriously, why should American corporations pay a 39 percent rate, among the world’s highest, to headquarter here when they can “invert” to Ireland and pay 12.5 percent, less than one third the domestic rate? If the corporation can keep most of their American workforce and keep 26.5 percent more of their money as an alternative by cutting the corporate tax rate, wouldn’t that a good […]

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Do you Know Crony Capitalism from Real Capitalism?

Do you Know Crony Capitalism from Real Capitalism?

In our modern age where government has vastly exceeded its constitutional and legitimate boundaries, and corruption runs amok in both parties, a lot of capitalism has been replaced by “crony capitalism.”

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ATF inspector at a federally-licensed gun dealer. (Source: ATF)

Choking Obama’s Operation Choke Point

As it will soon be known, in the bad old days of President Obama’s second term, he used the Department of Justice (DOJ) to attack his most hated of political enemies: gun dealers. In Operation Choke Point, a gun dealer could wake up one morning and find that his or her bank has terminated their relationship.

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Another South Dakota Ballot Initiative Challenged

Another South Dakota Ballot Initiative Challenged

Today, South Dakota Secretary of State Shantel Krebs announced that a challenge was submitted February 3rd on the initiated amendment to the South Dakota constitution limiting the ability to set statutory interest rates for loans (18%).

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