Regulatory relief comes from strange places

Now here’s a policy initiative I can get behind as a friend of microbusinesses.
Legislation introduced in the House and soon to be introduced in the Senate would require government bureaucrats to write their forms, instructions and other documents in plain English that most normal people can understand.
Senior citizens, veterans and taxpayers should be able to [...]

Podcast: Panel Views Nonemployer Health Care Issues

This has been a reasonably good week for microbusinesses, if you want to stop and think about it. Just consider:
- the Senate Finance Committee has finally noticed that 21.5 million nonemployers could be left out of reforms targeting access to health insurance unless somebody makes sure they don’t;
- new research out of the SBA Office [...]

Don’t count ‘em if they don’t count

Steve King is posting about size standards over at the Small Biz Labs blog – a topic on which I am consulted with some regularity, especially when it comes to nonemployers (which is what the government really calls them, as opposed to “businesses without employees,” — sorry, Steve).
He does make a valid point about the [...]

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