[March Poll] Do you care about tax simplification?

Somebody asked me whether Americans care about “the tax mess” — that is, the ungodly wreck of a tax code that we are tortured with every year around this time.
It’s an interesting question for me, for two reasons.
Reason number one: I can say that I sure hope they care, since I was just talking about [...]

Podcast: Credit Card Debt Increases Chance of Firm Failure

I don’t normally do themes with my newsletters, primarily because it’s pretty rare for the news to cooperate like that.
This week, however, the theme seems to be microbusinesses and money.
We have a new legislative proposals that threatens to take the money right out of our pockets.
We have two new studies about the topic, one [...]

Podcast: Senate Committee Looks Into Alternative Financing

Happy Small Business Week!
This weekly ritual small business groveling that emerges from Washington every year is always a time of profound irony for me. It’s tough to take policy makers seriously when they spout off about the manifold wonderfulnesses of small businesses, when the actual economic policies they craft say something very different.
Or, to [...]

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