Domestic Policy


How Taxes Should Be Cut

If the President and Congress really want to stimulate the economy, they will help small business.  Read story

The 1981 Tax Cut: A Tilt To Big Business?

President Reagan's tax reform plans still leave small business at a disadvantage.  Read story

Hanging Tough With Reagan On Taxes

Small business deal makers had to choose between political loyalty to the Administration and attractive offers from Democrats. They made a split decision.  Read story

Entrepreneurial Gold Rush In Low-power Tv

The Federal Communications Commission's recent proposal to permit low-power television stations to originate programs has prompted a rush of applications ...  Read story

Save Money on Energy Costs

The deregulation of the energy industry is a hot new market for some start-ups, as Emily Barker reveals in the Read story

UNTITLED

While global risk has become a focal point for investors, corporate malfeasance is still a hairy elephant. But if the recommendations made Thursday by the...  Read story

The Big Stimulus: What's in it for Small Business?

What the $819 billion dollar plan could do for your business.  Read story

Three Small Business Owners Who Love Obama's Stimulus

Some Inc. 500|5000 CEOs are in the right industries to benefit from the President's emergency funds.  Read story

Obama on the Economy

WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY Stimulating the economy: In the eyes of economists, not all stimuli are created equal. According to Mark Z...  Read story

Is Aggressive Intervention Required?

WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY Stimulating the economy: In the eyes of economists, not all stimuli are created equal. According to Mark Z...  Read story

Obama's Health Plan: Coverage, but at What Price?

WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE OBAMA PLAN: While the Tax Policy Center calls the President-elect's plans for insurance reform "highly progressiv...  Read story

A Debate over Workers' Rights

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How Much Will You Pay?

WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE OBAMA PLAN: For Individuals: According to the Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan center-left organi...  Read story

Who's Offering the Bigger Cut?

WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE McCAIN AND OBAMA PLANS: For Individuals: According to the Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan cente...  Read story

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Clean Air Act

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Clean Water Act

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

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Who Loves You More? A Debate Between Partisans

GOP: What's good for America is good for small business. Democrats: What's good for small business is good for America.  Read story

Bills, Bills, Bills

The well-prepared Washington business lobbyist always keeps a couple of new tax cuts or deregulatory schemes in his suit pocket just in case a selling opp...  Read story

America's Fastest-growing Private Companies

By now, you are familiar with the backbone metaphor. As in: “Small businesses are the backbone of our economy. We must do everything we can…to make s...  Read story

Let's Get Rid Of The Corporate Income Tax

Politicians talk boastfully about taxing wealthy corporations, when they are really just using smoke and mirrors to obfuscate the issue.  Read story

Behind The Flat-tax Debate

This year's tax battle in Congress could be a dress rehearsal for 1988.  Read story

Celebrate! Grieve! Sit And Bite Your Nails! A Guide To The Reagan Tax Program

If there was ever a time to question the adage "Nothing is certain but death and taxes," now is the moment. While death still seems a good bet, no one is...  Read story

Wooing Small-business Votes

DEMOCRATS ARE MOVING SLOWLY IN RETHINKING POLICIES AIMED AT THE SMALL-BUSINESS SECTOR.  Read story

Managing Under The New Tax Law

TO JUDGE FROM SOME OF THE COMMENTS about the tax-reform package earlier this fall, you would think that Congress had proposed nothing less than the reshap...  Read story

The Great Tax-reform Brouhaha

Contrary to what you've been hearing from almost every tax expert in the country, the Tax Reform Act may yet turn out to be a bonanza for small private compa...  Read story

Loophole Of The Month;

A good loophole is getting harder to find these days, but the Tax Reform Act of 1986 has one for your Christmas stocking. It retains the exemption for "c...  Read story

The Brave New World

The 1986 Tax Reform Act has raised new questions about virtually every compensation tool a company has  Read story

Whodunit

The Senate Finance Committee addresses some of the problems created by Section 89 of the tax code.  Read story

It's Not the Same America

Barriers to succeeding in business include regulation, special interests, protectionism, access to capital and welfare.  Read story

Small Business to Get More FCC Consideration

June 11, 2004 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Advocacy is making sure the Federal Communications Commission remembers th...  Read story

Dems Talk Business in Boston

July 27, 2004 -- Small business issues figured into the agenda in Boston Monday as the Democratic Party kicked off its weeklong ramp-up t...  Read story

Congress Extends Popular Middle Class and Business Tax Breaks

September 24, 2004 -- With the presidential election looming, a joint House-Senate committee delivered President Bush an early gift on Th...  Read story

Immigration Debates

Jan. 6, 2005 --House Speaker Dennis Hastert took the floor for his first speech in the109th congress on Jan. 4 to discussed a theme that h...  Read story

President Pushes Small Business Issues

Feb. 7, 2005 -- Small business issues played a central role in President Bush’s fifth State of the Union speech Wednesday night.Read story

Energy Bill Passed by House

April 26, 2005 --The House of Representatives passed an energy bill on Thursday that increases energy reliability, but favors the establis...  Read story

Women Business Owners Legislative Concerns Outlined

May 17, 2005 --Affordable healthcare, tax reform, simplification of government procurement rules, and better access to capital are among t...  Read story

Universal Health Care Is Back

July 12, 2005 --In response to rising health-care premiums and an increasingly uninsured population, advocates of a universal health care ...  Read story