Entries from BizBox Blog on Slate tagged with 'NFIB'
The Small Biz Lobbies and Health Care
A perfect way to see the heterogeneity of small business views is to look, as John Tozzi does, at the Main Street Alliance's and the National Federation of Independent Business's respective (and conflicting) views of what would constitute ideal health...
Whither Health Care Reform?
Robb Mandelbaum has two excellent recent posts over at You're The Boss profiling two major players in the health-care reform debate that both purport to represent--to borrow the motto of one of them--the voice of small business. About a week...
A Welcome New Health-Care Coalition
Let us now praise the National Federation of Independent Business. This is a rare sight; ordinarily, we are taking the prominent small-business interest group to task for disregarding the real needs of real small businesses in favor of the...
Bipartisan Support For Contracting Bill
We wanted to note something briefly about the Fairness and Transparency in Contracting Act. The bill, which we covered when it was first introduced, was submitted by Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) but penned by Lloyd Chapman of the American Small...
The Bogus Estate Tax Debate
Remember Joe the Plumber? (Of course you remember Joe the Plumber.) We remember Joe the Plumber, mostly for making us write a post in which we pointed out that, however you felt about his political positions generally, he was disingenuous--at...
Should The U.S. Lift The Payroll Tax?
We've offhandedly mentioned (see the bottom of this post) one of the National Federation of Independent Business's more heterodox and intriguing ideas: a payroll tax holiday as a stimulus measure. In one place, the group--which is probably the most prominent...
Should You Care About Card Check?
NOTE: CORRECTION AT BOTTOM. It appears that one of the central battles involving business, small business, and especially the leading small business lobby, the National Federation of Independent Business, is about to be joined. The Obama administration is getting...
The Ledbetter Act: A Bad Thing?
The National Federation of Independent Business, which is the leading small-business advocacy group, laments the passage of the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act in a press release. The group, which we have dinged in the past for being governed not...
The Auto Bailout and Small Businesses
"Small businesses owners are adamant," declared a release issued Monday by the National Federation of Independent Business and authored by the group's head, Todd Stottlemyer: "Don't ask us to send our tax dollars to Detroit to pay for their...
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