by Brian Garst | Sep 28, 2010 | Blogs, Economics, Minimum Wage, Regulations
Government bureaucrats think it is their business to prevent individuals from entering voluntary contracts with companies or organizations if the level of compensation does not meet some arbitrary threshold. Congress has used minimum wage laws to prevent certain...
by Brian Garst | Sep 23, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care, Regulations
Consider this a prelude to Obamacare: Tens of thousands of Texas children will be directly affected by the 11th-hour decision of a number of major health insurance companies to stop selling child-only policies rather than comply with the new federal law that requires...
by Brian Garst | Sep 17, 2010 | Blogs, Taxation
This news report demonstrates the lengths to which bureaucrats will go to pick your pocket. It doesn’t matter if your taxes have already ostensibly paid for government services, many local governments are now double taxing for the use of emergency services, even if...
by Brian Garst | Sep 11, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs
It seems that reports of Castro’s conversion were premature. While American politicians are learning from Castro how to tank an economy with reckless government intervention (not that there’s any other kind), Castro has apparently learned from our pols how to walk...
by Brian Garst | Sep 3, 2010 | Blogs, Taxation, Welfare and Entitlements
Excise taxes, where government taxes the sale of particular goods, are usually levied with the excuse that consumption of a good or engagement in a certain activity is harmful for individuals. If this were actually true, you’d expect government bureaucrats to...
